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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Everything
Epidemic
Epidemics
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Stupidity
Rise
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Stupid
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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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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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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