A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAmputees 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.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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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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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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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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