I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAll my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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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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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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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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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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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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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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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.
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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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