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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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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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Do not allow me to forget you
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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
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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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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
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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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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I’ve remained a virgin for you.
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