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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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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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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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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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