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161 " He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end. "
― Gabriel García Márquez , Love in the Time of Cholera
162 " Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet. "
163 " During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms. "
― Gabriel García Márquez , The General in His Labyrinth
164 " Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits. "
165 " Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves. "
166 " I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. "
― Gabriel García Márquez , Memories of My Melancholy Whores
167 " It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. "
― Gabriel García Márquez , Of Love and Other Demons
168 " I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love. "
169 " That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody’s having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of. "
― Gabriel García Márquez , One Hundred Years of Solitude
170 " The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will. "
171 " Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly - "
― Gabriel García Márquez , Collected Stories
172 " i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. "
― Gabriel García Márquez
173 " For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying. "
174 " A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "
175 " Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. "
176 " She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "
177 " No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. "
178 " Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. "
179 " Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. "
180 " There's no greater misfortune than dying alone. "