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“[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.”
― Naomi Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“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.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
― Gabriel García Márquez; Morino, Angelo (translator), El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. ”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth, because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone, you dress and perfume yourself for someone, and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.”
― Gabriel García Márquez