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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.

Gabriel García Márquez

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Myself Suffering Trade World
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Fly Inspirational Learning Myself Teaching Wings
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
And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Each Other Love Sex Silence
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Forget Memories Ourselves Reality
The 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Attitude Born Children Man
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Deep Emotion End Fall Herself Interest Search
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Love Sex Yourself
There is always something left to love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Gratitude Hope Love
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Life Measurement Night Sea Yourself
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Children Discover Friendship Greatness Love Oneself
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Capacity Hide Infinity Love
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Future Mad Man Mistake Peace
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Better Hope Person Yourself
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Life Suffering Time Young Yourself