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… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

— Gabriel García Márquez Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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More quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

The Paris Review interview (1981)

But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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