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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

Gabriel García Márquez

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Bad Elimination Goodness Heart Memories
She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Herself Lost Understand
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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Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation
Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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Life Simplicity Soul Time Wake Up
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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Capacity Hide Infinity Love
Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Fall In Love Sadness Smile Stop Yourself
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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Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
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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Death Enough Live Love Philosophy Togetherness
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Cure Happiness Medicine
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Comfortable Last Lying Truth
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Casual Freedom War
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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Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
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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Better Hope Person Yourself
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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End Love Lying Past Recovery Remember Truth
As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Better Journalism Learning Word Writing
When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Herself Marriage Reminder Wake Up