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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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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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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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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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