Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
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He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of 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.
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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Fatality makes us invisible.
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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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There had never been a death so foretold.
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.