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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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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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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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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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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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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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Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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