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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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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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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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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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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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