his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Gabriel García Márquez


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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Gabriel García Márquez


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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Gabriel García Márquez


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What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel García Márquez

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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 when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

Gabriel García Márquez

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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Gabriel García Márquez


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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Gabriel García Márquez

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The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Gabriel García Márquez

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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

Gabriel García Márquez

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Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Gabriel García Márquez

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