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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Lost
Conjured
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Mind
Images
Flying
Planets
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Stars
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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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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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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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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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