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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
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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Barcelona
Spain
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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 knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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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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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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