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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 only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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...but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Jealousy knows more than truth does.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Only God knows how much I love you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
...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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez