If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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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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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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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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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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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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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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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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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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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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