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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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