The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOne of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZShe was lost in her longing to understand.
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 MáRQUEZIt had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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 MáRQUEZNever stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhen I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZTake advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZLove does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNothing in this world was more difficult than love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAt some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ