She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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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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