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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Gabriel García Márquez

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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Life Measurement Night Sea Yourself
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Lose Oneself Power Reach Reality
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Help Himself Man Right Support
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Death Fear Life Sorry Yourself
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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End Grace Love Teaching Thinking
The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
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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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Fall In Love Feeling Soul Time
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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Admire Better Choice Country Management Myself People President World
The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Forever Love Reality
It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Death Life Limitation Philosophy
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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Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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Happiness Love Myself Power World
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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Lose Pain Place Sensation Time Yourself
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Guide Heart Herself Shadow Spirit
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.
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Capacity Illusion Infinity Moments Need