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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

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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Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation
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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Life Simplicity Soul Time Wake Up
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
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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Health Heart Himself Listening Tears
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Death Love Myself Regret
When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Herself Marriage Reminder Wake Up
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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Country Imagination Nation
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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Arrival Day Fiction Home Invention
I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Fall In Love Feeling Soul Time
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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Bed Help Immortal Love
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.
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Death Fear Life Sorry Yourself
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Poetry Visible Writing
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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Girl Perspective Work World
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Lose Oneself Power Reach Reality
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Beginning Father Growth Himself Man Old
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