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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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She would say, Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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.
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Don't open that door, she said. The hallway is full of difficult dreams. And I asked her: How do you know? And she told me: Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
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Nobody teaches life anything.
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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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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
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[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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