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It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Grateful, Adversity

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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

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Crush, Children, Past

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

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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dream, Memories, Gold

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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

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Brother, Earthquakes, Details

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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eye, Water, Naked

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How strange women are.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Strange

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

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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pain, Feelings, Desire

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In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

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Strong, Sleep, Dust

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 404), 1967.

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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

President, Drs, Conservative

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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Should, Said

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There had never been a death so foretold.

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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Glasses, Broken, Laughing

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.27, Penguin UK

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She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

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Romantic, Mask, Cholera

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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lying, Cocky, Squares

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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

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New York, Mean, Past

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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Talking, Kitchen, Littles

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El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

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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.

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Heart, Blow, Reality

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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sunday, Revelations, Instruments

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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

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People, Progress, World

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his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

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Curiosity, Mysterious, Mask

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She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men, Fingers, Weeping

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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Children, Father, Discovery

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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Laughing, Feelings, Use

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I’ve remained a virgin for you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Virgins

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