She 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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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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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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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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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.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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