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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
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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