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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZLife is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Things 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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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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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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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