A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZMake no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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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.
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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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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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There is always something left to 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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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