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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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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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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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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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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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