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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.
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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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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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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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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