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“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, Lower Depths and Other Plays

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
― Gabriel García Márquez