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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth."

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"I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth."

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"Some things are not supposed to be forgotten, these are the things which make us human."

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"When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. ['Not without the past']"

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"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."

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