The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. ✨ Love in the Time of Cholera. Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.
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