Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
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What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.
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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
