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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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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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