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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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