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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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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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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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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None of us are what we once were.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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