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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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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.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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