Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZShe 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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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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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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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There is always something left to love.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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