We’ll grow old waiting.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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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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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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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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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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There is always something left to love.
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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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