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“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“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 book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 153

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 1

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

Gabriel García Márquez

[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Do not allow me to forget you”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: .. the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez quote: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”

Gabriel García Márquez book No One Writes to the Colonel

Source: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variant: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.