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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZTake advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than 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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There is always something left to love.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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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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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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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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