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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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