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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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