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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
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Madmen
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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