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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
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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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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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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