Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
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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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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
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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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Surrealism runs through the streets.
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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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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
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Do not allow me to forget you...
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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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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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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His place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning .
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...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.