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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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