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somethings can only be seen in the shadows

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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
Seen
Somethings
Shadows
Shadow

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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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None of us are what we once were.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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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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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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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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