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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

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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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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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 most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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