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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Gabriel García Márquez

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Count Life Live Order Remember
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
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Country Imagination Nation
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
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Death Enough Live Love Philosophy Togetherness
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Discover Dreams Forget Generation Greedy Hope Life
As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Better Journalism Learning Word Writing
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

Arrival Day Fiction Home Invention
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Feeling Old Truth Yourself
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Believe Essential God Yourself
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
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Food Funny Marriage Promise
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Goodness Old Respect Secret Solitude
Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Life Simplicity Soul Time Wake Up
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Help Learning Man Myself Need Obligation Right