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

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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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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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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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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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