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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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truth
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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identity
life
self
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e51bdd4
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There is always something left to love.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, ..
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romance
love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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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 o..
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love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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c62e207
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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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b1c0b7b
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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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.
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women
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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1) I love you not for whom you are, but who i am when i'm by your side. 2) No person deserves your tears, and who deserves them won't make you cry. 3) Just because someone doesn't love you as you wish, it doesn't mean you're not loved with all his/her being. 4) A true friend is the one, who hold your hand and touches your heart. 5) The worst way to miss someone is, to be seated by him/her and know you'll never have him/her. 6) Never stop sm..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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77e66cc
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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secrecy
privacy
public-image
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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8f27d75
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4863145
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4468d66
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time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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2b418d4
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Do not allow me to forget you
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love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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afbecf4
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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61b4931
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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melquiades
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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5b88a1a
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He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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8b8cb45
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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20f4277
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and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love...
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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13f9c1c
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e7b5b4c
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What does he say?' he asked. 'He's very sad,' Ursula answered, 'because he thinks that you're going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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page-241
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...
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spanish
latin-america
first-lines
español
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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7abff26
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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solitude
marquez
garcia
hundred
of
one
years
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a955097
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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death-and-dying
serenity
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hund..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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b1a5205
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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old
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a4b5315
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Only God knows how much I love you.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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36a7b5e
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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6807784
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4d0f859
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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b958c1d
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...
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inspirational
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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Gabriel García Márquez; Morino Angelo (translator) |
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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love
indifference
unrequited-love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e441a6b
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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 ..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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0b96b05
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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59a7b6f
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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19a97d0
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Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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6706563
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There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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ddca975
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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be9d39d
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e4da081
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and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Gabriel García Márquez |