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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Gabriel García Márquez

And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Hope Love Pretension Problem
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Poetry Visible Writing
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Destroy Fantastic Important Problem Separate
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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Capacity Hide Infinity Love
And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Each Other Love Sex Silence
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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Girl Perspective Work World
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.
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Life Measurement Night Sea Yourself
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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Deep Emotion End Fall Herself Interest Search
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Man Money Myself Poor Rich
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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Age Feeling Old Truth Yourself
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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Age Goodness Old Respect Secret Solitude
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
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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Let Go Love Myself Return Yourself
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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Dog Each Other Enjoyment Happiness Love Miracle Play Togetherness
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Enough Existence Moments Myself
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Acceptance Crazy Mindset People Reason Thinking