At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAn early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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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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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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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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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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