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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.
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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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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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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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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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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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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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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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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