Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZJust as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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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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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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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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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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