Gabriel García Márquez
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Biography
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
"There is always something left to love."
"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."
"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."
"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
"Do not allow me to forget you"
"Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love."
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself."
"Always tell what you feel. Do what you think..."
"Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile."
"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets."
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."
"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
"He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you"