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 MáRQUEZSex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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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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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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The 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.
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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.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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