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 MáRQUEZWhy were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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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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We’ll grow old waiting.
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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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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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