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 MáRQUEZNobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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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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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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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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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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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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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Music is important for one’s health.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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