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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
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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 don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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 think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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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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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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