The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZLove does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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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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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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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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There is always something left to love.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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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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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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