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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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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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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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You 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.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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For 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.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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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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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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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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