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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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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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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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