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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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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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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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