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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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Barcelona
Spain
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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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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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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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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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