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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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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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 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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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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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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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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None of us are what we once were.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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