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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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 looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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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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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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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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