A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe only everyday and eternal reality was 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 you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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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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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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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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