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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

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Saint, Sinner

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I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

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Book, Silence, Would Be

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Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

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Curse

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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

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Years, Bye, Dawn

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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

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Reality, Hypocrisy, Spokes

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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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Felt

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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

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Coffee, Thinking, Wings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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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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Telling The Truth, Mood, Foul

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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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Girl, Years, Brain

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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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Knowing, Clay, Our Words

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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

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Kids, Lakes, Mirrors

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.117, Penguin

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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

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Men, Animal, Moral

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It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

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Confusion, Ruins, Facts

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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

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Sacrifice, Men, Soul

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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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Believe, Temptation, Wanted

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

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Fall, Fortune, Our Lives

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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

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Prejudice, World, Opinion

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

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Writing, Angel, Wind

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

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Truth, Book, Mirrors

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.200, Penguin

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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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Running, Book, Reading

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

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War, Epic, Technology

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In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

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Hero, Stories, Able

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

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Once In A Lifetime, Lifetime, One Love

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I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

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Writing, Night, Dragons

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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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Dream, Book, Two

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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Born: September 25, 1964
Occupation: Novelist
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