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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
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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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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... , 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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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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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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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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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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