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There are worse prisons than words.

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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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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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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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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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