Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 7

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. View quote
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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. View quote
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. View quote
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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. View quote
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. View quote
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral. View quote
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It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia. View quote
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When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. View quote
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we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. View quote
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Cease, cows, life is short. View quote
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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. View quote
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. View quote
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. View quote
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. View quote
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. View quote
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain. View quote
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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. View quote
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He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. View quote
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? View quote
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. View quote
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I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. View quote
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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips...her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. View quote
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