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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
Frightened
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Nobody

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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing 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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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. . .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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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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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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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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