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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
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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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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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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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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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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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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