He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe 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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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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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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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