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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
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Human
Forgotten
Humans
Memory

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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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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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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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None of us are what we once were.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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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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There are worse prisons than words.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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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.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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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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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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