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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.

Gabriel García Márquez

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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

End Grace Love Teaching Thinking
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Lose Oneself Power Reach Reality
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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Death Enough Live Love Philosophy Togetherness
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
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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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
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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Age Feeling Old Truth Yourself
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Death Fear Life Sorry Yourself
There is always something left to love.
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Gratitude Hope Love
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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Bed Help Immortal Love
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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Break Up Cry Relationship Worth Yourself
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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Life Suffering Time Young Yourself
I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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Afraid Believe God Himself
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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Count Life Live Order Remember
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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Curiosity Guide Heart Herself Sorry Try
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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Happiness Love Myself Power World
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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Capacity Hide Infinity Love