The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAt 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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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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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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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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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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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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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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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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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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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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