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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories, Flower, Book

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.202, Penguin UK

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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hazards

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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

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Two, Ephemeral, Emotion

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.121, Penguin UK

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I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Long, Miracle, Sound

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 12, 2017

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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Addiction, Seductive, Facts

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Unrequited Love, Fate, Almonds

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.455, Penguin UK

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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Opportunity, Half

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

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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hate, Passion, And Love

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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Order, People, World

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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Disbelief, Senses

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His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Warning, Tables, Cases

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While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sex, Giving Up, Doe

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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Stories, Levitation

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

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lying, Believe, Commitment

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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mother, Son, Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.131, Penguin UK

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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book, Eye, Writing

"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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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War, Bananas, Enough

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It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

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Butterfly, Yellow, Appearance

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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Doe, Very Sad

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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

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Flower, Smell, Relation

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Oct 02, 2014

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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Film, Novel

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 338, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

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Spiritual, Sunday, Simple

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In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

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Reality, Keys, House

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.332, Penguin UK

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He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People, Hated, Closing

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez Library".

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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

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Heart, People, Sorrow

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