All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWe’ll grow old waiting.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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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.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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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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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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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