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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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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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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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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
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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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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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