The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThis 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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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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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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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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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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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 people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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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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