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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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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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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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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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