Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOver 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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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