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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

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"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

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"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
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"No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. "No, not rich, he said. "I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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