All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZHe was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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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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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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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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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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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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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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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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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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