Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 4

The weak would never entered th kingdom of love. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. View quote
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards. View quote
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It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. View quote
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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. View quote
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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. View quote
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. View quote
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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. View quote
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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. View quote
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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. View quote
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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. (Gabriel García Márquez)
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. View quote
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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. View quote
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I've remained a virgin for you. View quote
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them. View quote
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Only God knows how much I love you. View quote
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She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . View quote
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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. View quote
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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. View quote
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Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same. View quote
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How strange women are. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. View quote
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. View quote
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time. View quote
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Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. View quote
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