868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    «Todo el mundo dice que la muerte es una mujer», siguió diciendo la mujer. Era corpulenta, más alta que su marido, y con una verruga pilosa en el labio superior. Su manera de hablar recordaba el zumbido del ventilador eléctrico. «Pero a mí no me parece que sea una mujer», dijo. Cerró el armario y se volvió a consultar la mirada del coronel:―Yo creo que es un animal con pezuñas.―Es posible ―admitió el coronel―. A veces suceden cosas muy extrañas.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    The cholera was much more devastating to the black population, which was larger and poorer, but in reality it had no regard for color or background.

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    Il le constata avec la compassion des fils que la vie a transformé peu à peu en pères de leur père, et pour la première fois il souffrit de ne pas avoir accompagné le sien dans la solitude de ses erreurs.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    Lo constatò con la compassione dei figli che la vita ha trasformato a poco a poco in padri dei loro padri, e per la prima volta si dispiacque di non essere stato insieme al suo nella solitudine dei suoi errori.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions.

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