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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.
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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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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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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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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