She was lost in her longing to understand.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNo, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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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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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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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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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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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There is always something left to love.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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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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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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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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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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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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