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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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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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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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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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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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There are worse prisons than 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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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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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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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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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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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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