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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
People
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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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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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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