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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFiction 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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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