"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."
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"It was a love of perpetual flight."
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"The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love."
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"Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac."
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"Jealousy knows more than truth does."
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"Necessity has the face of a dog."
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"Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future."
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"Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving."
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"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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"It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world."
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"She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week."
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"Nobody teaches life anything."
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"Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough"
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"Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America."
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"Surrealism runs through the streets."
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"Children's lies are signs of great talent."
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"The weak would never enter the kingdom of love."
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"Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap."
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"Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur."
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"I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before."
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