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None of us are what we once were.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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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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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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