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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
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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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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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