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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

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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
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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There are worse prisons than words.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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