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Gabriel García Márquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Beginning Father Growth Himself Man Old
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Help Learning Man Myself Need Obligation Right
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Capacity Illusion Infinity Moments Need
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Appearance Deep Feeling See Time Truth
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Circumstance Hear Important Person Realization Talk Yourself
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Difficult Easy Myself Process Writing
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Believe Children Method Myself Regard Sensitive
When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Herself Marriage Reminder Wake Up
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Friendship Life Worth
Inspiration gives no warnings.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Inspirational One Liner Warning
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Age Feeling Old Truth Yourself
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Food Funny Marriage Promise
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 MáRQUEZ

End Love Lying Past Recovery Remember Truth
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Help Himself Man Right Support
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation
I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Afraid Believe God Himself