Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThis 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.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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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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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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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.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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There is always something left to love.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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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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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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