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.
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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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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.
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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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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
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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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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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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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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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There is always something left to love.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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