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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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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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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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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 stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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