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 MáRQUEZAmputees 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.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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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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