Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

358 quotes · Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

All Love Lonely Melancholic Sad Philosophical 358 quotes · page 16 of 30

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

Melancholic

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Age Mets Old You

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

Sad

“At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.”

Pain Suffering Reason

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Grateful

“When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.”

Healthy Bread

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Lonely

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

Found Solitude

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Creative

“The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.”

Writing Visible Transparent

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Grateful

“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”

People Memories

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Wise

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

World Reality

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Love

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

Trying Falling In Love One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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Confident

“Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.”

People Important Night

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Nostalgic

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

Firsts Father Age

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Lonely

“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”

Running Knowing Dare

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Funny

“Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.”

Years Book Responsibility

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