No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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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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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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There is always something left to love.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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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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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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 spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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