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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Monday, Crazy, Splinters

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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Years, Class, Hot

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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love Life, Ideas, Meditation

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For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Night, Teeth, Dresses

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The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eight, Differences, Today

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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wise, Years, Together

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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Children, Orange, Years

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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Natural Talent, Knowing

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 14, 2015

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She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Men, Order

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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Opportunity, Race, Years

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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Father, Age, Firsts

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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Halloween, Alaska, Labyrinth

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “The General in His Labyrinth”, p.195, Penguin UK

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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Running, Knowing, Dare

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Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Soap, Said, Let Me

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1292, Penguin UK

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In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Father, Names, Ice

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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Boredom, Overcoming, Married

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

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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Important, Young Writers

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...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Girl, Eye

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, www.elle.com. 1985.

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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Light, Law

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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories, Years, Tears

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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pain, Men, Helping

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1273, Penguin UK

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She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Terrible, Anguish, Findings

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Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Horse, Communication, Progress

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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Country, Book, Kind

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 336, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War, Cities, Long

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