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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.

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
Learned
Simply
Nothing
Important
Remembered

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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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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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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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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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