At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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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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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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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 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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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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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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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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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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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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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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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We’ll grow old waiting.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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