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There are worse prisons than words.
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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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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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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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None of us are what we once were.
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