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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

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Waves Breaking, Feet, House

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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

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Children, Years, Way

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.300, Penguin UK

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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

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Memories, Opportunity, Men

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

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Uncles, Father, Nephew

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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

World, Responsible, Said

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.109, Penguin UK

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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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Pain, Cranes, Falcon

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

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Crush, Heart, Men

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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

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Justice

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Grateful, Adversity

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Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

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Sacrifice, Simple, Night

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Only God knows how much I love you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Love You, God Knows

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And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Years, Stills

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.32, Penguin UK

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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

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Orange, Anxiety, Bells

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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

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War, Circles, Knowing

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The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

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Self, Skins, World

"Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Gregory Rabassa (p. 279), 1970.

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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.

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Men, Fingers, Weeping

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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

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Crush, Children, Past

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

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Glasses, Broken, Laughing

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.27, Penguin UK

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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.

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Hands, Knowing, Everyday

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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

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Laughing, Feelings, Use

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Shame has poor memory.

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Memories, Shame, Poor

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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

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People, Progress, World

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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

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Pain, Feelings, Desire

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He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

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Order, Two, Ties

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She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

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Brother, Father, Heart

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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