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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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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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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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