The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes From Gabriel Garcia Marquez One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories. Gabriel Garcia Marquez dreammorningbook Do not allow me to forget you Gabriel Garcia Marquez forget-youforget I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wingsgivingchildren He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez spiritualmotherlife The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows. Gabriel Garcia Marquez shadowhateheart A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. Gabriel Garcia Marquez one-hundred-years-of-solitudedoubtlying Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. Gabriel Garcia Marquez springmemorieslying Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez advantagelastssuffering "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." Gabriel Garcia Marquez philosophicalwake-upsoul No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcia Marquez healingbeing-happyhappiness Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. Gabriel Garcia Marquez illusionsawstoday She was lost in her longing to understand. Gabriel Garcia Marquez longingscenebeautiful I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez falling-in-lovesoultwo The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez generationssoulreality Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are Gabriel Garcia Marquez meeting-someonebetter-personmeetings She felt the abyss of disenchantment. Gabriel Garcia Marquez choleraabyssfelt Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. Gabriel Garcia Marquez whaleswifehome i 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 pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez stylemindopposites One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez cholerasorrowpeople She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez blowheartreality
