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“Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteen and twenty-five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, I've never asked. But I believe I've heard of the way time can suddenly accelerate on people when they're going through even the most youthful and highly esteemed stages of life. My ageing was very sudden. I saw it spread over my features one by one, changing the relationship between them, making the eyes larger, the expression sadder, the mouth more final, leaving great creases in the forehead. But instead of being dismayed I watched this process with the same sort of interest I might have taken in the reading of a book.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“I'm tired of begging God to overthrow my son, because all this business of living in the presidential palace is like having the lights on all the time”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“God damn it, just a good minister of health which is the only thing anyone really needs in life, and maybe another one with a good hand for what has to be put in writing”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“un hombre cuyo poder había sido tan grande que alguna vez preguntó qué horas son y le habían contestado las que usted ordene mi general,”
― Gabriel García Márquez, El otoño del patriarca