A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZJust imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThey enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZTime was not passing it was turning in a circle.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZJust because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAnd the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZDon’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZHe 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 MáRQUEZVery well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThings 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 MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZI 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 MáRQUEZShe discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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