No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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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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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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There is always something left to love.
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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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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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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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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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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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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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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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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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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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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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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