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• He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Tears, Stethoscope

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 05, 2017

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• It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Imagination, Doe

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

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• Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Lost, Immense

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 166), 1967.

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• It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Girl, World, This World

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• An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Husband, Men, Rising

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• Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crazy, People, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… 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. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Differences, Trying, Six

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sorry, Heart, Curiosity

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• One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Forgive And Forget, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Minutes

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

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• At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Suffering, Reason

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.695, Penguin UK

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• Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clever, Secret, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Soul, Generations

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• Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Army, Humanity, Fields

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• The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Reality, Everyday

  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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• It was a love of perpetual flight.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Flight, Perpetual

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “The General in His Labyrinth”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sunday, Literature, World

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• Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  War, Firsts, Casualties

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• All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Moments, Frightened

  "Love And Age: A Talk With Garcia Marquez". Interview with Marlise Simons, www.nytimes.com. April 7, 1985.

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• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Suffering

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

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• Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mistake, Peaceful, Madmen

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• But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Firefly, Saws, Infinite

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