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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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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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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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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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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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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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