It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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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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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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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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