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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
Madmen
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Others
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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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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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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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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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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