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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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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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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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