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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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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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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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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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