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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
Spain
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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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