Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
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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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Only God knows how much I love you.
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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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It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
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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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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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.
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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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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.
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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.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
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In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.
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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.
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.