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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.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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None of us are what we once were.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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