Great quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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E-mail China.org.cn, April 18, 2014
Colombian great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on April 17 in his home in Mexico City at the age of 87. Here we present to you 20 famous quotes from the great novelist.
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Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Photo/guancha.cn] |
1. "There is always something left to love." -- "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
2. "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." -- "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
3. "Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia." -- "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
4. "He was still too young to know that 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." -- "Love in the Time of Cholera"
5. "Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good." -- "Love in the Time of Cholera"
6. "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." -- "Love in the Time of Cholera"
7. "Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability." -- "Love in the Time of Cholera"
8. "All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret." -- "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a Life"
9. "For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying." -- "Of Love and Other Demons"
10. "Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning." -- "Of Love and Other Demons"
11. "Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses." -- "Of Love and Other Demons"
12. "Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel." -- "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"
13. "I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world." -- "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"
14. "No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
15. "It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
16. "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
17. "In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are."
18. "If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate."
19. "Jealousy knows more than truth does."
20. "Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me."
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