Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes - Page 9

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• Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Decision, Feelings, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 23, 2012

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• Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Father, Years, Ice

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Believe, Book, Secret

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets Ernest Hemingway" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1981.

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• Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Circles, Passing, Evidence

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• And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Everyday, Floating

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• It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Real, Heart, Agony

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.2822, Penguin UK

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• Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sad, Heartbreak

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• He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Bears, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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• There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Innocence, Cholera

  "Love in the Time of Cholera".

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• Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Real, Autumn, Destiny

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• A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Doe, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Persons

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Knowing

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

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• a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Taken, Feet

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• I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love Is, Thinking, Opposites

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• In the end all books are written for your friends.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Ends

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

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• The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Rain, Whole Life, Bothered

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• Surrealism runs through the streets.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Running, Surrealism, Streets

  "The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions". Interview with William Kennedy, www.theatlantic.com. January 1973.

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• A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Fall, Rain

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1967.

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• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mouths, Fats, Seems

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

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• It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Taken, Past, Lasts

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• Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Compassion, Rose, Captains

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• Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Torment, Ifs

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.51, Penguin UK

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• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Reflection, Blood

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sex, Enough

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