Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe 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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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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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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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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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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