Cholera Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grateful, Adversity, Hatred

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

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• With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, People, Sorrow

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• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Money, Men, Literature

  "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, (p. 167), 1985.

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• Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Army, Humanity, Fields

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• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Marriage, Wedding, Morning

  Love in the Time of Cholera (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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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Heart, Literature

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1365, Penguin UK

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• I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Opportunity, Half

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

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• It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Thinking, Years

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• He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Grateful, Eye

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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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• 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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• 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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• Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Suffering, Lasts, Advantage

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Aug 03, 2016

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• Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Curiosity, Mask

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• Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Acceptance, Doors, Calm

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

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• It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Unrequited Love, Fate, Almonds

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.455, Penguin UK

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• For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Long, Together, Enough

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

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• The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lust, World, Unusual

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• She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Abyss, Felt, Disenchantment

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Innocence, Dangerous

  "Love in the Time of Cholera".

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Mask

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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