The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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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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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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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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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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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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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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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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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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