“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

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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