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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

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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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Time
Loneliness
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Inside
Away

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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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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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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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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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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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