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Fear Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

18 Fear quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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The surreal world of Gabriel García Márquez never shies away from the shadows that linger in our hearts. Across 18 quotes, his lyrical voice paints fear as both a haunting presence and a catalyst for wonder, inviting you to linger in the uncanny corners of his imagination.

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“fear of death is the amber of happiness”

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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

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She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

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“Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had…

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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him…

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Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was…

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will…

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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough:…

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“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made…

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“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over…

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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each…

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“Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he…

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“Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in…

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“Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the…

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And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were…

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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was…

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“[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or…

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“She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles…

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“Berhentilah sepi, hidup ini pendek.”

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“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

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“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…

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He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved…

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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.

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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had…

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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…

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“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his…

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“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the…

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“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical…

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