She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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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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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have 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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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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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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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