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Gabriel García Márquez104 quotes“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez We’ll grow old waiting.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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 García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
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Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Feeling lost is a sign that you’re finally listening to yourself and no longer conforming to what is expected of you.
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Hadley AllisonHadley Allison Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents’ converted garage.
Becky GBecky G In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, “This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for”. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
George ForemanGeorge Foreman I used to be a mighty dragon, the one that breathes fire, I used to be a magical unicorn, sprinkling rainbows everywhere, but now I’ve lost it, the magic hidden within.
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