“The pursuit of love
is like falconry.”

— Gil Vicente

La caza de amor
es de altanería.
Epigraph attributed to Gil Vicente by Gabriel García Márquez in Crónica de una muerte anunciada ["Chronicle of a Death Foretold"] (1981), first page.

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Portuguese writer 1456–1536

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