Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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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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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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This 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.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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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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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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