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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Useless
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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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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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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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