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 MáRQUEZThings have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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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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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.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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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.
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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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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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.
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