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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
Spain
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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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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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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