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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut 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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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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There is always something left to love.
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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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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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