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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAnd 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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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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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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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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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