For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAll human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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