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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZMake no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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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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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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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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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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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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