Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 3

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. (Gabriel García Márquez)
There is always something left to love.
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door. (Gabriel García Márquez)
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.
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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
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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.
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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
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The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
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