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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
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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