"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
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"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
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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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"The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows."
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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
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"Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia."
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"Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right."
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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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"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."
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"For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened."
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"Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life."
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"He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past."
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"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
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"To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love..."
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"Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
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"Do not allow me to forget you"
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"This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it."
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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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