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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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
Nobody
Settled
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Begun
Story
Noticed
Stories
Usual
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Essential
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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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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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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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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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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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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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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