Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFreedom is often the first casualty of war.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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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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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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We’ll grow old waiting.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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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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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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