"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 JuliÃ¡n was living in the past, locked in his memories. JuliÃ¡n 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."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.”
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
“She had seemed to need something from him that he hadnâ€™t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.”
“When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
“Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.”
“Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.”
“I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.”
“Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.”

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