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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe 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.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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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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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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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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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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