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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

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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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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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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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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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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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