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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
Deep
Nobody
Frightened

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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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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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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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