This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAll my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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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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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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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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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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