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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant 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 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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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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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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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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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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