A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWherever 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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There is always something left to love.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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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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