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.
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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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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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 only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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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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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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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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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