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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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