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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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 still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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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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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
