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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
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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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Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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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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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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