For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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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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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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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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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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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At 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 those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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Music is important for one’s health.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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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 became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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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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