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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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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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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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