He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThey 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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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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 human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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