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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War, Firsts, Casualties

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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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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Falling In Love, Trying, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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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.

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Night, Sea, Watches

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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

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Love, Mean, Reality

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love You, Mean, Doe

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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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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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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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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Believe, Essentials, Believe In You

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.47, Penguin UK

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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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Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

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Song, Heart, Blood

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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.

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Reality, Soul, Generations

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

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Fathers Day, Dad, Men

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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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.

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Sorry, Heart, Curiosity

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

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Solitude, Lost, Immense

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

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

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Husband, Men, Rising

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

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Army, Humanity, Fields

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

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Girl, World, This World

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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.

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Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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

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Clever, Secret, Three

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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