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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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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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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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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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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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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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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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