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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People, Progress, World

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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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I’ve remained a virgin for you.

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Virgins

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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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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War, Circles, Knowing

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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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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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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Country, Latin, Europe

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

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Real, World, Fame

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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

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Justice

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

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[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

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Limits, Captains, Overwhelmed

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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

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Tree, Lines, Lasts

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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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.

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Lying, Cocky, Squares

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

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Sunday, Revelations, Instruments

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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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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.

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Talking, Kitchen, Littles

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

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Glasses, Broken, Laughing

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

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

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One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Should, Said

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

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Romantic, Mask, Cholera

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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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He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

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Order, Two, Ties

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Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

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Moving, Giving, Prejudice

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.64, Penguin UK

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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

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Youth, Circumstances

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