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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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64b138a
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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e54ffa2
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'n lns yfkrn blm`n~ lkhfy ll'sy'l@ 'kthr mn tfkyrhn bl'sy'l@ dhth
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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87999fd
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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dffa567
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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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c04e19a
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a0204c8
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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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c6b6687
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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.
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life
truth
young
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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f3462c0
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The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a80b214
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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wallowing
self-indulgence
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a339a4f
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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
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vegetarianism
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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b9fa166
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Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y canabrava construidas a la orilla de un rio de aguas diafanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistoricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecian de nombr..
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inspirational
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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25e027d
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Morality, too, is a question of time.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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637ce95
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Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y canabrava construidas a la orilla de un rio de aguas diafanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistoricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecian de nombr..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4ba7d78
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a3a19f6
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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solitude
old-age
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4229a0a
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Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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423de19
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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love
love-conquers-all
of-love-and-other-demons
gabriel-garcía-márquez
disbelief
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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9f6aed0
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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a338560
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and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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9f4d093
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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that Jose Arcadio Buendia 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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a63ff68
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T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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ee25923
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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d774f14
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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aef8958
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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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95d5e2b
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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94728fc
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On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden. Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth. The fi..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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4ce2c31
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A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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38d099c
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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aec810a
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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literary-quotes
unusual
strange
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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a11bf49
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?" What other reason could there be?" Colonel Gerineldo Marquez answered. "For the great Liberal party." You're lucky because you know why," he answered. "As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride." That's bad," Colonel Gerineldo Marquez said. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was amused at his alarm. "Naturally," he said. "But in any case, it's ..
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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838da37
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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f0de6e5
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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6201cfa
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It was the time when they 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 mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.
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love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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499f26b
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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5053ac1
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her."
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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610ddb5
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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644886e
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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60a6f7d
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I go to seek a great perhaps
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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3cc2bbc
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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life
love
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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1b1a78f
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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.
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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74245a0
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myw'lmny fy lmwt hw 'l 'mwt Hb
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موت
حب
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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bde4418
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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Gabriel García Márquez |