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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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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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