Mind Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

17 Mind quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel García Márquez offers seventeen reflections that blend reality and imagination, showing how the mind can wander through both ordinary and extraordinary landscapes.

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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

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“he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling.”

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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

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“During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.”

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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

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“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made…

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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he…

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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and…

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“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything…

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“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked…

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“…At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender…

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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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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it…

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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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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place,…

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“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending…

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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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“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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