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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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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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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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