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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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Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
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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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Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
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Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to.
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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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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.
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That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.
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Until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
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I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Born:
September 25, 1964
Died:
June 19, 2020
(aged 55)
Bio:
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist best known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento.
Known for:
The Shadow of the Wind (2001)
The Angel's Game (2008)
The Prisoner of Heaven (2011)
The Prince of Mist (1993)
September Lights (1995)
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