868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

Creo que las mujeres sostienen el mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarate mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final, uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata.

Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor.

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