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Up Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
- While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
- 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…
- A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
- I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
- When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
- 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…
- Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her…
- Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
- She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had…
- Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
- 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…
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