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“Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)-------------"Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning."(Chapter:Chapter Two)"What ...”
“Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.”
“I’ve never been a believer in fate. I like to think I’m in control, that my life hasn’t been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change ever...”
“Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?”“Oh, son. How could you ask a man who used to play the blues a question like that?”“How long does it take to go away?”“A broken heart?”“Yeah.”“There’s no...”
“Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together”
“The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak”
“If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love”
“The unspoken feeling that engulfs you and smolders you more and more each day.....love!”
“Neither words can bring you back... I know now,as I have triedNot the tears... I know now, as I have cried”
“If everything must be burned I will do the burning and so I will not be burnt but be the fire. Everything I ever loved burned and so I will be the burning. There is nothing but that must which be b...”
“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with...”
“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”
“The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.”
“The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.”
“A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and ...”
“Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody”
“…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 19...”
“This is the part they don’t tell you about in the movies. Or in On the Road. This is not rock ’n’ roll. You are not William Burroughs, and it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference if Kurt Cobain wa...”
“Loving for the second time isn’t sweet; it’s bitter, and hurt more than the first.”
“At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, ...”
