"Love perseveres. It's men who change."
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"Most human beings still cannot trust love."
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"Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving."
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"But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love."
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"By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget."
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"It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith."
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"It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away."
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"It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself."
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"That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny."
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"He gives before he is asked."
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"He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people."
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"When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates."
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"He too knows how to lose."
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"We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe."
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"We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings."
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"We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill."
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"Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse."
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"People who are different are dangerous; they belong to another tribe; they want our lands and our women."
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"We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know."
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"We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy."
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