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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
Approximate author period: c. 1992 AD · modern
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- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1992 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Carlos Ruiz Zafon: recorded author lifetime 1964–2020. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296752 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is carlos-ruiz-zafon; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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