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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZMake no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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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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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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There is always something left to love.
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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
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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.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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