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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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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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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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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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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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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