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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Do not allow me to forget you...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
