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Other Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have…
- Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or…
- 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…
- They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
- A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety…
- and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
- Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things…
- She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal…
- Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society…
- It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait…
- ...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even…
- Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
- She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
- It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible…
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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