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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
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Explore more quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."
"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
"She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written."
"When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?"
"Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room."
"Nigromanta took him to her room, which was lighted with false candlesticks, to her folding cot with the bedding stained from bad loves, and to her body of a wild dog, hardened and without a soul, which prepared itsself to dismiss him as if he were a frightened child, and suddenly it found a man whose tremendous power demanded a movement of seismic readjustment from her insides."
"Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget."
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