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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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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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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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