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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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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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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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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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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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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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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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