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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhy 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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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