Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFor they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Tell 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.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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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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If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
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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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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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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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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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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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We’ll grow old waiting.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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