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Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
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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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
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we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.
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