Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Surrealism runs through the streets.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.
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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.
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In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
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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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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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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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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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Jealousy knows more than truth does.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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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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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.
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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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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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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
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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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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.