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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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