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The evening of life brings with it its lamp.
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You can't help growing older, but you can help growing old.
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Age takes away from a man only qualities that avail wisdom nothing.
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All the good of man lies in his youthful feeling and his mature thought.
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Related Topic(s): Aging; Dreams; Old Age
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"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
Garc�a Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude.
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Related Topic(s): Decay; Dogma; Invent Invention
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...and did not the degeneration of religion begin with reason itself?...The decay of religion is due to the pedantic spirit, in the invention of creeds, formulas, articles of faith, doctrines and apologies. We become increasingly less pious as we increasingly justify and rationalize our beliefs and become so sure that we are right.
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Related Topic(s): Darkness; Decay; Decline; Despair; Disease; Dying; Emergency; Existential; Prison; Rain; Storms; Suffering
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