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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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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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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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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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