“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“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.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidates who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.”
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