What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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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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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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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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It 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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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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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