Gabriel García Márquez on life
Gabriel García Márquez104 quotes“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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Inspiration gives no warnings.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez 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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