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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 Márquez

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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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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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Born Death Life Myself
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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Better Death Funny Greatness Starve Way Writing Yourself
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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Fear Life Moments Myself Scare Writing
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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One 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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Difficult Easy Myself Process Writing
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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There is always something left to love.
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Gratitude Hope Love
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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Feeling Himself Pain Presence Suffering
Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Fall In Love Sadness Smile Stop Yourself
We’ll grow old waiting.
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Growth Old Time Wait
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Poetry Visible Writing

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