A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
