Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 6

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. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. View quote
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. View quote
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. View quote
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through . View quote
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. View quote
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It was a love of perpetual flight. View quote
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying. View quote
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Necessity has the face of a dog. View quote
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. View quote
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This soup tastes like windows. (Gabriel García Márquez)
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. View quote
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. View quote
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. View quote
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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. View quote
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The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. View quote
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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. View quote
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! View quote
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He who awaits much can expect little. (Gabriel García Márquez)
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory. View quote
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. View quote
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Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. View quote
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love. View quote
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