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Inspiration gives no warnings.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
Music is important for one's health.
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
In the end all books are written for your friends.
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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.
While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
Surrealism runs through the streets.
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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