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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
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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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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