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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
Loneliness
Gets
Inside
Away
Doesn
Time

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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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