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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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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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None of us are what we once were.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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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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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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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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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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