“But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”
― Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
― Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
“all languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Then came time for her to marry. She had nine suitors. They all knelt round her in a circle. Standing in the middle like a princess, she did not know which one to choose: one was the handsomest, another the wittiest, the third was the richest, the fourth was most athletic, the fifth from the best family, the sixth recited verse, the seventh traveled widely, the eighth played the violin, and the ninth was the most manly. But they all knelt in the same way, they all had the same calluses on their knees.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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