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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.

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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
Learned
Simply
Nothing
Important
Remembered

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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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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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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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