Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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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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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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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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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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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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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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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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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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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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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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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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