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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very sim...more

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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly...more

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I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much ab...more

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That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face gr...more

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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. L...more

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine...more

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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did...more

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Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and...more

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I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such thin...more