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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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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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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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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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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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