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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
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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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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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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