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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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