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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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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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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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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