This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFor those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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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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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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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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Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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