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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
Nobody
Frightened
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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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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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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There are worse prisons than 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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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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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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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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