Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOver 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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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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Why 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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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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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