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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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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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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