What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZShe was lost in her longing to understand.
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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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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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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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There is always something left to love.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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