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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards 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
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are people you remember and people you dream of.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Memories are worse than bullets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
