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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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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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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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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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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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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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