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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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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 secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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