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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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None of us are what we once were.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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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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