Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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La seguridad es tan corrosiva como lo son las dudas
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La ternura nace en el momento en que el hombre es escupido hacia el umbral de la madurez y se da cuenta, angustiado, de las ventajas de la infancia que, como niño, no comprendía
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La persona que pierde su intimidad, lo pierde todo
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The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
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When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.
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She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
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People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
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Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.
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L'optimiste est l'opium du genre humain ! L'esprit saint pue la connerie.
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Le plus grand malheur de l'homme, c'est un mariage heureux : Aucun espoir de divorce.
By Milan Kundera -1968
Être aimé sans mérite, c'est la preuve d'un vrai Amour.
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