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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez We’ll grow old waiting.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel 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.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez
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Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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