Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
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Fatality makes us invisible.
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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Only God knows how much I love you.
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If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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There had never been a death so foretold.
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.