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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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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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