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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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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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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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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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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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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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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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