The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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