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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThey 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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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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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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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There is always something left to love.
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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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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 more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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