Gabriel García Márquez: Doing

“Do not allow me to forget you”

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think…”

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

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

“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.”

“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”