All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZSex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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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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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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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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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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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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Music is important for one’s health.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks 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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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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