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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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
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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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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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