One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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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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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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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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