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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut 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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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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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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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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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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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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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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