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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

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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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Flamboyant
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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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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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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