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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Children, Two, Only Child

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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

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World, Sake, Cholera

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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

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Waves Breaking, Feet, House

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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 bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

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News, World, Bells

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Shame has poor memory.

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Memories, Shame, Poor

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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

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Dream, Thinking, Years

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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

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Age, Odor, Disease

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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

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Daughter, Regret, Thinking

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

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Reality, Letters, Slipping

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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Despite, Without Love

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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

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Lust, World, Unusual

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Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

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Kissing, Destiny, Hands

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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

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Sadness, Thinking, Pieces

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.339, Penguin UK

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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

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Dog, Sunday, White

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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

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Lust, Veins, Hips

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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

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Long, Everyday, Usual

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Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Imagination, Caribbean

"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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Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

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Talking, Doe

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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Impossible

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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

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Solitude, Cost, Paradise

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

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Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Years, Forever, Matter

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 2004.

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I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

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Memories, Fighting, Want

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As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

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Untamed, Body, Heat

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.44, Penguin UK

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