I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOne 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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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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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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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.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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