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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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Humans
Believe
Survive
Breathe
Beings
Order
Human

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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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.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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 moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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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 swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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