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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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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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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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