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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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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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[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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