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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

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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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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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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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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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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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