A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZHe 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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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She 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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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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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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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