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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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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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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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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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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 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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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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