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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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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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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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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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