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
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.
And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
How strange women are.
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.