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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWe’ll grow old waiting.
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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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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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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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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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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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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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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.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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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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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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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