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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFor 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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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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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 is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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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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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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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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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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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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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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