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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ba8637 | Life is the best thing that's ever been invented. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e27b945 | There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 787b874 | n lGyr@ t`rf 'kthr mm t`rf lHqyq@ . | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 5988e5f | It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed is as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torm.. | suicide cyanide doctor poison unrequited-love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| a32763d | y una vez mas se estremecio con la comprobacion de que el tiempo no pasaba, como ella lo acababa de admitir, sino que daba vueltas en redondo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 96902d8 | I heard a shout on the horizon, the sobs of someone who perhaps had died a century earlier in the room. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c74e32e | Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can," she said to him, "because these things don't last your whole life." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4777296 | lm 'fkr qT fy lsn `l~ 'nh thqb fy lsqf yqTr lm mnh,lynbh 'Hdn l~ kmy@ lHy@ lakhdh@ bltbqy lh. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 412b4c8 | Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his mind not to leave the room. And the most upsetting part was that the fear had no justification at all, that it was a unique fear, without any reason, a fear just because. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f31c7ae | She would go to sleep only once and that would be to die. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fc4d8e1 | love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 3cdff02 | One has to live a long time to know a man's true nature. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6b292d5 | Music is important for one's health. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1fccc6d | seres humanos no nacen para siempre el dia en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga otra vez y muchas veces a parirse a si mismos. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a0df4e6 | l'khlq mthl 'y shy, hy 'yDan mn l'mwr lty tkhD` ltqlbt lzmn | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 30f349a | ahora que eres joven para sufrir todo lo que puedas --le decia--, que estas cosas no duran toda la vida. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| cfc8876 | kyf ytTrf b`D lns l~ Hd shhr lHrb l'hly@ bsbb m`tqdt qbl@ llSwb wlkhT'. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c2ee25b | he was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2337ed4 | She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had straight black hair that reached to her shoulders, and an aura of antiquity that could just as well have been Indonesian as Andean. She was dressed with subtle taste: a lynx jacket, a raw silk blouse with very delicate flowers, natural linen trousers, and shoes with a narrow stripe the color of bougainvillea. 'This is the most beautiful w.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e6baf61 | I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppressed rage, that I am punctual only only to hide how little I care about other peoples time. | selfishness | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 76a33da | La citeva luni dupa intoarcerea sa, incepuse sa imbatrineasca atit de repede si intr-un chip atit de nelinistitor, incit in curind fu privit ca unul dintre acei strabunici inutili care se foiesc ca niste umbre prin odai, tirindu-si picioarele, amintindu-si cu glas tare de timpurile frumoase din trecut, si de care nimanui nu-i mai pasa si nici nu-si mai aminteste de ei pina in ziua cind ii gaseste morti, in zori, in patul lor. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 17619ec | Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness." | sad-truth | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 0e8a1ee | On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the entrance, and on the wet envelope he recognized at once the imperious handwriting that so many changes in life had not changed, and he even thought he could detect the nocturnal perfume of withered gardenias, because after the initial shock, his heart told him everything: it was the letter he had been waiting fo.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e74567d | Pero sabia, mas por escarmiento que por experiencia, que una felicidad tan facil no podria durar mucho tiempo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4b4a5ef | It was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9e381f3 | Nada se parece tanto a una persona como la forma de su muerte. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fd5200d | kl mry' hw syd mwth, wlshy' lwHyd ldh~ blmkn `mlh `ndm tHyn ls`@ hw ms`dth `l~ lmwt dwn khwf 'w 'lm. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1276909 | De manera que su despreocupacion consiente hubiera sido suicida. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ffd4f62 | That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of its years. Dr Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, loved it enough to see it with the eyes of truth. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 14f8417 | Su buena labor parece por momentos desvirtuada por la desilusion. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 075afde | The legal reporter came out of his cubicle shouting that two bodies of unidentified girls were in the city morgue. Frightened, I asked him: What age? Young, he said. They may be refugees from the interior chased here by the regime's thugs. I sighed with relief. The situation encroaches on us in silence, like a bloodstain, I said. The legal reporter, at some distance now, shouted: "Not blood, Maestro,shit." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| daab8b4 | but her decision opened the door a crack, wide enough for the entire world to pass through. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1b46e25 | There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| da8b089 | Then he crossed his arms over his chest and began to listen to the radiant voices of the slaves singing the six o'clock Salve in the mills, and through the window he saw the diamond of Venus in the sky that was dying forever, the eternal snows, the new vine whose yellow bellflowers he would not see bloom on the following Saturday in the house closed in mourning, the final brilliance of life that would never, through all eternity, be repeate.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2ec14cb | Dr. Urbino, prepared for a confidential visit, realized too late that there was no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| eb48614 | La nostalgia, como siempre, habia borrado los malos recuerdos y magnificado los buenos. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a67464d | Siempre he creido que el toma mas en cuenta el amor que la fe. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c2c9e78 | They all saw him come out, and they all understood that now he knew they were going to kill him | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f877396 | I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bewildered by the coincidence between what I said and what they were thinking. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 906dae7 | Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e0c1a87 | I understood that he was my host, though he only glanced at me and walked by, and I did not have the audacity to signal to him in any way. He hurried into the station and came out again minutes later with no expression of hope. At last he saw me and pointed with his index finger: "You're Gabito, right?" I answered him with all my heart: "Almost, now." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ff4c32b | He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love. The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 33b6975 | l'db hw 'fDl l`b@ khtr`t lkhd` lns | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 03613d9 | When at last he surrendered, Florentino Ariza hung the mirror in house, not for the exquisite frame but because of the place inside that for two hours had been occupied by her beloved reflection | Gabriel García Márquez |