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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Falling In Love, Two, Soul

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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Food, Eggplant, Promise

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

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People, Doe, Can Not

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She was lost in her longing to understand.

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Beautiful, Longing, Scene

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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Happiness, Being Happy, Healing

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

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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

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Men, Birth, Inconsiderate

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “In Evil Hour”, p.125, Penguin UK

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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Age, Mets, Old You

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sorry, Dying, Rest Of Your Life

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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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Song, Believe, Said

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from May 10, 2013

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"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

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Philosophical, Soul, Wake Up

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

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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sex, Wall, Women

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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There is always something left to love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Romantic, I Hate You

"Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Separation, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.624, Penguin UK

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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Truth Is, Said, Sigh

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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories, Lying, Spring

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dream, Heart, Sleep

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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Night, Sea, Watches

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...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dog, Children, Two

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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Real, Important, Lines

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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

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Opposites, Style, Mind

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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Cry, Make You Cry

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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

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Dream, Morning, Book

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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Life, Mother, Spiritual

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from May 11, 2014

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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

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Love You, Mean, Doe

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That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Doe, Reason

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