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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

Gabriel García Márquez

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Lose Oneself Power Reach Reality
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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Arrival Day Fiction Home Invention
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

End Love Lying Past Recovery Remember Truth
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Cure Happiness Medicine
I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Afraid Believe God Himself
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Casual Freedom War
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 MáRQUEZ

Hope Love Pretension Problem
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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Believe Essential God Yourself
If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Let Go Love Myself Return Yourself
Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Difficult Love World
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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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Decision God Ignorance Man Sleep Woman Worth
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Betrayal Feeling Love Oneself People Sorrow Time
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Believe Love Song True Yourself
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Future Mad Man Mistake Peace
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Goodness Old Respect Secret Solitude