Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law...
NationalityColombian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 March 1927
CountryColombia
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
There is always something left to love.
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.