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There are people you remember and people you dream of.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
Remember
People
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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