Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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 as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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If 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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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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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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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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