But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZShe discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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