Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

La persistencia de su recuerdo le aumentaba la rabia. Cuando despertó pensando en él, al día siguiente del entierro, logró quitarselo de la memoria con un simple gesto de la voluntad. Pero la rabia volvía siempre, y muy pronto se dio cuenta que el deseo de olvidarlo era el más fuerte estímulo para recordarlo. Entonces se atrevió a evocar por primera vez, vencida por la nostalgia, los tiempos ilusorios de aquel amor irreal

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Los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidaron en cuerpo y alma las ilusiones del por venir.

Por el amor de Dios -murmuró Clotilde Armenta-. Déjenlo para después, aunque sea por respeto al señor obispo.

Le temps ne passe pas, il tourne en rond.

Il mondo era così recente, che molte cose erano prive di nome, e per citarle bisognava indicarle col dito.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.

Poate c? pentru lume eÈ™ti o singur? person?, dar pentru o anumit? persoan?, eÈ™ti întreaga lume.

Dice que si no le sacas la muela te pega un tiro. Sin apresurarse, con un movimiento extremadamente tranquilo, dejó de pedalear en la fresa, la retiró del sillón y abrió por completo la gaveta inferior de la mesa. Allí estaba el revólver. -Bueno -dijo-. Dile que venga a pegármelo.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

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.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

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

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.