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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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Barcelona
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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 still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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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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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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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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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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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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