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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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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.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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