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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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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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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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