It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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 man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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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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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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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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