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Jul092016

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez II

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

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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.

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

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

There is always something left to love.

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

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.


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