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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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
Spain
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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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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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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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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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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