“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Quotes from book
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez
Original title
Memoria de mis putas tristes
(Spanish, 2004)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”
Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
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“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
