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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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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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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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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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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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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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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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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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