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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

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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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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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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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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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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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