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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memorie...more

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Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't ...more

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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

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Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

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The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet ...more

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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give ...more

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to ...more

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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

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Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does ...more

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Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creatur...more