Friday, December 21, 2012

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” 

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth  to themselves.” 

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 .

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.


It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. 


"He who awaits much can expect little."
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was".

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom”
“But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good”

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