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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Gabriel García Márquez

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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Feeling Himself Pain Presence Suffering
They enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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Dog Each Other Enjoyment Happiness Love Miracle Play Togetherness
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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Discover Dreams Forget Generation Greedy Hope Life
As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Better Journalism Learning Word Writing
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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Arrival Day Fiction Home Invention
It 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.
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End Grace Love Teaching Thinking
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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Better Death Funny Greatness Starve Way Writing Yourself
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Army Humanity Slow Speed
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Comfortable Last Lying Truth
And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Each Other Love Sex Silence
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Different Difficult Love Path Reach Wisdom World
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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Bed Help Immortal Love
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Capacity Illusion Infinity Moments Need
Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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Best Expectation Struggle
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Beginning Lost Voice Word
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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Born Day Himself Human Mom Obligation