Quotes by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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«Parece maricas» (...) «E era uma pena, porque estava de se barrar com manteiga e comer-se vivo»

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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

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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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A literatura era o melhor brinquedo que se tinha inventado para gozar com as pessoas

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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

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A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. "Damn it," he sighed. "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be bo...

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...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

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our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

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She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn’t have given for a love like this!

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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 pretence invented b...

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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

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I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppr...

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Siempre he dicho que los celos saben más que la verdad.

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As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

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