Fiction 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.
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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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Over 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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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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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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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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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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