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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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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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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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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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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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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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[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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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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