It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThis 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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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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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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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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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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