When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAll human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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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.
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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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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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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, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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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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Music is important for one’s health.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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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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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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