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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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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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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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