Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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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.
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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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.
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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.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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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.
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
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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.
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Do not allow me to forget you...
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
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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.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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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.
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.