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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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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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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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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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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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