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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
Charles De GaulleRead
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael JordanRead
Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.
Benjamin HoffRead
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.
Michael JordanRead
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya LinRead
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
Russell SimmonsRead
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
Yvon ChouinardRead
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
Yvon ChouinardRead
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
Jean GenetRead
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
William Howard TaftRead
The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.
Keanu ReevesRead
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
Jackie Joyner-KerseeRead
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.
Francis SchaefferRead
For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
Edgar Rice BurroughsRead
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true.
Francis SchaefferRead
People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
Lenny KravitzRead
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
Joyce Carol OatesRead
Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.
John GreenRead
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin ScorseseRead

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