“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
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Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Variant: .. the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past
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“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
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