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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
Somethings
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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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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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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 only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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