Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.
Am ajuns să fiu conştient că forţa invincibilă care a împins lumea înainte nu e iubirea fericită, ci aceea neîmplinită.
Gabriel García MárquezN-am să uit vreodată privirea ei întunecată pe când mâncam: De ce m-ai cunoscut atât de bătrân? I-am răspuns adevărul: Vârsta nu e cea pe care o ai, ci aceea pe care o simţi.
Gabriel García MárquezHe said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
Gabriel García MárquezOne never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.
Gabriel García MárquezI dare to think that it is this outsized reality, and not just its literary expression, that has deserved the attention of the Swedish Academy of Letters. A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us and determines each instant of our countless daily deaths, and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune. Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.
Gabriel García MárquezWe'll grow old waiting.
Gabriel García MárquezThat may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have to think.
Gabriel García MárquezFlorentino Ariza was left with the nagging suspicion that this was not her last word. He believed that when a woman says no, she is waiting to be urged before making her final decision, but with her he could not risk making the same mistake twice.
Gabriel García MárquezNothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies, and no death could resemble the man he was thinking about less than this one. But it was he, although it seemed absurd: the oldest and best qualified doctor in the city, and one of its illustrious men for many other meritorious reasons, had died of a broken spine, at the age of eighty-one, when he fell from the branch of a mango tree as he tried to catch a parrot.
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