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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.
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Fatality makes us invisible.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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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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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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And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.
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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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I’ve remained a virgin for you.
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When I wake up, he said, remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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