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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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.
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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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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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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with 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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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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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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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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