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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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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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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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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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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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