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Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.


Gabriel García Márquez

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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sak...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Only God knows how much I love you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I’ve remained a virgin for you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans sav...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ثمة خوف يعذبني على الدوام من أنّ الطائرة ستسقط
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Era ancora troppo giovane per sapere che la memoria del cuore elimina i brutti ricordi e magnifica q...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always f...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And er...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Science has eliminated distance.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It is easier to start a war than to end it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Bătrânețea este o stare indecentă care trebuie oprită la timp.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Time put things in their place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ «Какой сегодня день?» - Аурелиано ответил ему, что втор�...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ أيها الجبان. الأسوأ كان قد انقضى
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves wit...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
He said it for no ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Dadme un prejuicio y moveré el mundo.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...
CRISTINA GARCíA Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll...
CRISTINA GARCíA There is good news tonight.
GABRIEL HEATTER I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi...
GABRIEL BYRNE I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,...
GABRIEL BYRNE I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha...
GABRIEL BYRNE It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi...
GABRIEL BYRNE I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
GABRIEL BASSO You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazin...
GABRIEL BASSO I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
GABRIEL BASSO I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
GABRIEL BASSO Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half...
GABRIEL BASSO I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't...
GABRIEL BASSO I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t...
GABRIEL BASSO