“Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough:… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in… — 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
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles… — 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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