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Own Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
- The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
- Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was…
- She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
- Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
- Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear…
- Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she…
- Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the…
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