Maybe God wants you know a lot of wrong people before you know the right one so when you finally met him/her you know how to be grateful.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 13 Lines to Live By
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On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
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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.

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If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants flying in the sky, people will probably believe you.

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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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They no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera
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