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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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Barcelona
Spain
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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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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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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