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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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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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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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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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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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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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