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Life Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
- When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate…
- People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To…
- I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity…
- And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left…
- 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…
- You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is…
- What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount 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…
- Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time…
- It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a…
- It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
- wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
- and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
- [The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than…
- It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together…
- The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow…
- I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the…
- He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the…
- Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling…
- Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an…
- Cease, cows, life is short.
- All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
- it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle