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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.

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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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 swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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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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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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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've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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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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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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