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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.
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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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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