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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Doctors
Lifetime
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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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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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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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 like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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 think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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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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