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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.