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From Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
- I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get…
- I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very…
- If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a…
- Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it…
- To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as…
- What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited…
- In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and…
- It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming…
- Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of…
- He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them…
- A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers…
- My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
- He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what…
- 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…
- The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it…
- The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind,…
- Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only…
- His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .
- The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
- She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, 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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