Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhen I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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.
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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.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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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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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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