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.
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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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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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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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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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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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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’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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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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There is always something left to love.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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