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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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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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