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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
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You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.
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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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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
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He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
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With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.
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I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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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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