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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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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Barcelona
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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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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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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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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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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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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