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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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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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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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