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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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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.
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Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
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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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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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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter
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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.
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Music is important for one's health.
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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.
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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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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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and 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.
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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