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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
Convert
Sinner
Saint
Never

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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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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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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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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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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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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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