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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hypocrisy
Unequivocal
Clear
Lucidity
Sense
Julian
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Escaped
Reality
Abide
Madmen
Spokes
Spoke

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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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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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 greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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