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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

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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
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Love
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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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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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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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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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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