I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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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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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.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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.
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