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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel García Márquez

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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Discover Dreams Forget Generation Greedy Hope Life
And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Each Other Love Sex Silence
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
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Love Sex Yourself
The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Friendship Life Worth
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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Help Learning Man Myself Need Obligation Right
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
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Guide Heart Herself Shadow Spirit
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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Difficult Easy Myself Process Writing
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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Capacity Illusion Infinity Moments Need
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Goodness Husband Man Rise
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Food Funny Marriage Promise
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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Deep Dreams Growth Inspirational Old People Pursue True
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.
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Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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Feeling Thinking Yourself