Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZYou 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.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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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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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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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising 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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