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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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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.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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None of us are what we once were.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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