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Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
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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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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