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She was lost in her longing to understand.

Gabriel García Márquez

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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Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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Curiosity Guide Heart Herself Sorry Try
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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Fly Inspirational Learning Myself Teaching Wings
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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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
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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Lose Pain Place Sensation Time Yourself
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Love Sex Yourself
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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Better Death Funny Greatness Starve Way Writing Yourself
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Guide Heart Herself Shadow Spirit
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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Capacity Hide Infinity Love
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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Feeling Himself Pain Presence Suffering
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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Difficult Easy Myself Process Writing
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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Believe Love Song True Yourself
It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Death Life Limitation Philosophy
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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Life Suffering Time Young Yourself
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Human Life Private Public Secret
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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Let Go Love Myself Return Yourself

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