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 MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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There is always something left to love.
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
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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 life, more than death, that has no limits.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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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.
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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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All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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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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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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