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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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Bullets
Loneliness
Killing
Worse
Memories
Tell
Heart
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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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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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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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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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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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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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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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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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[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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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