"With her Florentino Ariza learned what he..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
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“It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.”
“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.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”
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“I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.”
“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.”
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”
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“When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.”
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
“The real friend is another self.”