But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIf men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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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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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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