"The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry."
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"Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel."
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"It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things."
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"At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place."
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"Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her."
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"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
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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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"This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father."
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"He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear."
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"Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves."
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"When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread."
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"but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude."
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"She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out."
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"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
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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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"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."
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"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
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"She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love."
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"As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others."
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"Hate and love are reciprocal passions."
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