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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Secretly
Corner
Corners
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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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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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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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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