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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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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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None of us are what we once were.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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