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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.
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
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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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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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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