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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

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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
Fool
Wise
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Men
Wine

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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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 knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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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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