Gabriel García Márquez Short Quotes

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

Gabriel García Márquez
Justice... limps along, but it gets there all the same.

Gabriel García Márquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Gabriel García Márquez
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

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I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

Gabriel García Márquez
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

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… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.

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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

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Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.

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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

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I've always been convinced that my true profession is that of journalist.

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Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.

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

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Opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.

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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

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

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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

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Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

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… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

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Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

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