Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Ya me sobrará tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no está todavía en mis proyectos.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
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