Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThings have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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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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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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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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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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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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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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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 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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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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There is always something left to love.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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