Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZJust imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZI became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZSex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOver 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZInspiration gives no warnings.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAll my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe 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 MáRQUEZTell 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThis 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ