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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAnd the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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.
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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.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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