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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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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
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Felt
Always

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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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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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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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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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