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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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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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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 prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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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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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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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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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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