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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
Remember
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Corner
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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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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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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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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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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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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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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