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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.
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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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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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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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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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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