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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
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Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez