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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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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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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
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Nobody teaches life anything.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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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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Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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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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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
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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 allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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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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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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