Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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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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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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