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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZLife is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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