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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.
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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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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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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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