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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Gabriel García Márquez

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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Discover Dreams Forget Generation Greedy Hope Life
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Life Perspective Reaction Remember Yourself
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Friendship Life Worth
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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Feeling Himself Pain Presence Suffering
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Beginning Father Growth Himself Man Old
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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Life Suffering Time Young Yourself
The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Arrival Day Fiction Home Invention
The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Forever Love Reality
As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Better Journalism Learning Word Writing
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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Death Fear Life Sorry Yourself
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Beginning Lost Voice Word
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Human Life Private Public Secret
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
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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Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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Better Hope Person Yourself