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First Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
- Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk…
- An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked…
- Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
- Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the…
- The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from…
- Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn…
- This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
- The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
- Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She…
- One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and…
- She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong