868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provides the security they need in order to face life

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    ... a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion."It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    Continuò a essere così, anche quando il corpo cominciò a inviargli i primi segnali di allarme, perché aveva sempre avuto la salute di ferro della gente cagionevole.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    Dr Urbino recognized their oppressive weight, their ominous silence, their suffocating gases, which on so many insomniac dawns had risen to his bedroom, blending with the fragrance of jasmine from the patio, and which he felt pass by him like a wind out of yesterday that had nothing to do with his life.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothing underneath, which made her seem more naked than if she wore nothing at all.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    Caracas era todavía una población remota de la provincia colonial; fea, triste, chata, pero las tardes del Ávila era desgarradoras en la nostalgia.

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