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.
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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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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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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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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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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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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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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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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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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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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