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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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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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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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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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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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