Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhy 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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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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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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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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