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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Children, Wings, Giving

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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sex, Wall, Women

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

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Friendship, Family

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

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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Feels

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Home, Whales, Wife

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Dec 09, 2011

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Regret, Dying

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

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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Life, Beautiful

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lying, Doubt, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 31, 2014

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For those who may be hurting over lost love:
Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hurt, Lost Love, May

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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Order, Knowledge And Power, Remember

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.6, Penguin UK

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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Solitude, Secret, Age

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK

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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hate, Heart, Shadow

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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Meeting Someone, Better Person, Meetings

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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People, Old People

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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Truth Is, Said, Sigh

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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People, Sorrow, Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1528, Penguin UK

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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Inspirational, Life, Wise

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

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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Visible, Transparent

"Of Love and Other Demons". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.sfgate.com. 1994.

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Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Circles, Passing It, Passing

"100 Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, p. 409, www.counterpunch.org. 2006.

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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Food, Eggplant, Promise

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

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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dream, Heart, Sleep

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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Today, Saws, Illusion

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Happiness, Being Happy, Healing

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

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She was lost in her longing to understand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Beautiful, Longing, Scene

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There is always something left to love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Romantic, I Hate You

"Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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