"When one reaches absolute power, one loses total……" — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality."
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337 Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has 337 quotes on this site.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and…
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not…
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write…
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I…
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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