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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
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Barcelona
Spain
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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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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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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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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 moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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