The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Memory, The Past
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Death, Dying
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Children
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Reality
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Marriage
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