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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Bookshop
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Bookshops
Breathed
Strangely
Stepped
Perfume
Paper
Magic
Bottling

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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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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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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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