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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZHe pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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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.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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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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