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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."
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
"If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already."
"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart."
"Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile."
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
"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."
"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."
"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."
"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
"Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it"
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
"Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected."
"If you love something - let. 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."
"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."
"Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."
"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."
"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."