This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAs a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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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.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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