Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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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...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
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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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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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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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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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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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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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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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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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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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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.
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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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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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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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Surrealism runs through the streets.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
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Jealousy knows more than truth does.