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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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None of us are what we once were.
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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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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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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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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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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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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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