Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide
Gabriel García MárquezThe only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love. All that remained were the dusty almond trees, the reverberating streets, the houses of wood and roofs of rusting tin with their taciturn inhabitants, devastated by memories.
Gabriel García MárquezThe move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.
Gabriel García MárquezThe colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories
Gabriel García MárquezShe was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.
Gabriel García MárquezI soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bewildered by the coincidence between what I said and what they were thinking.
Gabriel García MárquezThey entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different
Gabriel García MárquezEach thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this on other occasions, but only on that morning did I recognize it as a crisis of inspiration, that word, abominable but so real, that demolishes everything in its path in order to reach its ashes in time.
Gabriel García MárquezBefore that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
Gabriel García MárquezDawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness.
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