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Carlos Ruiz Zafón was born in Barcelona, Spain, on September 25, 1964.
* He studied advertising and worked as a copywriter before becoming a full-time writer.
* His first novel, The Prince of Mist, was published in 1993.
* His fourth novel, The Shadow of the Wind, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller.
* The Shadow of the Wind was translated into 44 languages and sold over 38 million copies worldwide.
* Zafón was awarded the Premio de la Crítica de la narrativa catalana in 2005 for The Shadow of the Wind.
* He died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, on June 19, 2020.
* Zafón is considered one of the most important Spanish writers of the 21st century.
* His books have been praised for their atmosphere, storytelling, and use of language.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

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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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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

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Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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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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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

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One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

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I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

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