Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 8

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance. (Gabriel García Márquez)
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything. View quote
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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. View quote
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There had never been a death so foretold. View quote
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And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were. View quote
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She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. View quote
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his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. View quote
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Morality, too, is a question of time. View quote
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever". View quote
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What does he say?' he asked. 'He's very sad,' Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you're going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can. View quote
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In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said. View quote
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Both looked back then on the wild revelry... and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. View quote
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and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. View quote
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. View quote
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. View quote
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. View quote
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. View quote
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Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams... View quote
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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can. View quote
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Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. (Gabriel García Márquez)
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. View quote
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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants. View quote
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing. View quote
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives. View quote
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