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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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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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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 became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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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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... , 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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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None of us are what we once were.
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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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