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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZSex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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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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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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