Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I never have thought about age as a leak in the roof indicating the quantity of life one has left to live.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — 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
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
“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
“Life would have been quite another matter for them both if they had learned in time that it was easier to avoid… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“they brought the Bible and syphilis, they made people believe that life was easy, mother, that everything is gotten with money, that… — 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
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
[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
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother gives birth to them, but that life obliges… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The night was over, for he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and… — 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
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I told her about my life, I read into her ear the first drafts of my Sunday columns in which, without my… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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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