Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZVery well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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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 was lost in her longing to understand.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Amputees 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.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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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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