I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAmputees 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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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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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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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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There is always something left to love.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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