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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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
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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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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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