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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
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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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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