The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOne 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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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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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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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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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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