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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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