Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes - Page 15

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• The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Self, Skins, World

  "Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Gregory Rabassa (p. 279), 1970.

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Hands, Knowing, Everyday

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• He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Ugly

  "Love in the Time of Cholera".

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• and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Probability, Permanent

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Mind

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• One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Believe, Forever, Doubt

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