I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAn early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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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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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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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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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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