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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZI would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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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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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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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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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We’ll grow old waiting.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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