Gabriel García Márquez - Die Quotes

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Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves over Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano Jose had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

Gabriel García Márquez
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

Gabriel García Márquez
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Gabriel García Márquez
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
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel García Márquez
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Gabriel García Márquez
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Gabriel García Márquez