Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Cease, cows, life is short.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
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She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.
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the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
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Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.