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In the end all books are written for your friends.
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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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 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 always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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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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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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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
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There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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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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