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• He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Ugly

  "Love in the Time of Cholera".

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• Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Loss, Use

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• The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Mind

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• [The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Limits, Captains, Overwhelmed

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• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Storm, Trying, World

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Latin, Europe

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Water, Naked

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• Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Real, World, Fame

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• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Goes On, Fame, Hours

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Curiosity, Mysterious, Mask

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• The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Tree, Lines, Lasts

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Probability, Permanent

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Blow, Reality

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• Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Earthquakes, Details

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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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  New York, Mean, Past

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• Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Should, Said

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• How strange women are.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Strange

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

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• There had never been a death so foretold.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Strong, Sleep, Dust

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 404), 1967.

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• She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sunday, Revelations, Instruments

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Father, Discovery

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• She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Mask, Cholera

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• I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Youth, Circumstances

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• Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Moving, Giving, Prejudice

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.64, Penguin UK

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