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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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Life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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The most important thing I learned to do after the age of forty was to say no when it is no.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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It puzzles me as much to think that God exists as it does to think that God doesn't exist.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of thwarted loves.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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The wisdom comes to us when it is no longer useful.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell the tale.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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At every moment of my life, there is a woman who leads me by the hand through the darkness of a reality that women know better than men and in which they navigate better with fewer lights.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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There is no medicine that can cure what happiness cannot cure.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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I never reread my books because it scares me.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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No, I don't wish success upon anyone. It happens to you like it happens to mountaineers, who struggle to reach the summit, and when they do, what do they do? They descend, or try to descend discreetly, with as much dignity as possible.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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Love is as important as food. But it doesn't nourish.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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The writer writes their book to explain to themselves what cannot be explained.

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