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The Angel's Game (2008)
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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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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy moustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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 wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him.
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It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend — if possible, a deaf one.
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Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
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I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Born:
September 25, 1964
Died:
June 19, 2020
(aged 55)
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