He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZVery well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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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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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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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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