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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZMy most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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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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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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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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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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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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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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