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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAt some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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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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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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