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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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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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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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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We all give up great expectations along the way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
