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“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&amp;q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&amp;pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I go to seek a great perhaps”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth