Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIf 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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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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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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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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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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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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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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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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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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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