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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
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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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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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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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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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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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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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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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