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Explore more quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people."

"Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love."

"If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."

"Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood."

"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."

"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, 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."

"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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