01c. 1970 ADIt was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADThe young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been surprised that he had not seen him at the Medical School, but he understood in an instant from the young man's blush and Andean accent that he was probably a recent arrival to the city. He said: "There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days." And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remeber, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice. "And when you do find one, observe with care," he said to the intern: "they almost always have crystals in their heart.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADNu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADHe soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADMerciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADWhen I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
08c. 1970 ADThis was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADShe made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn’t have given for a love like this!Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADShe was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADA man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADHe 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.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADIn Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kidding on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April. He was still too young to know that 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.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
15c. 1970 AD...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADour two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after anotherGabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADA century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADPerhaps 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.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
19c. 1970 ADThe experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
20c. 1970 AD...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
21c. 1970 ADI discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
22c. 1970 ADI discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppressed rage, that I am punctual only only to hide how little I care about other peoples time.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
23c. 1970 ADIt was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any goodGabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
24c. 1970 ADThe feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
