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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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 most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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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 prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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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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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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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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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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None of us are what we once were.
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