Gabriel García Márquez: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 6)

“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.”

“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.”

“… 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams…”

“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.”

“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!”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I go to seek a great perhaps”

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”