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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Book
Memories
Make
Books
Things
Beauty
Knowledge
Cemetery
Language
Collecting
Ideas
Metaphor
Human
Forgotten
Humans
Memory

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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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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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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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