Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”
[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]
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Morality, too, is a question of time.
Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (translated by Edith Grossman)
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It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Gabriel García Márquez; 100 Years of Solitude
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams when they grow old. They grow old when they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García Márquez
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[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.
Gabriel García Márquez, from ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, tr. Gregory Rabassa
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1650- Y si un día no tienes ganas de hablar con nadie, llámame... estaremos en silencio.
(Gabriel García Márquez)
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Día 21
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Do you ever get sad knowing that you'll never know all the languages and so since translators make choices (they have to) and things sometimes don't fully translate you can never experience every book exactly as it was originally intended to be read?
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Y si un día no tienes ganas de hablar con nadie, llámame… estaremos en silencio”.
Gabriel García Márquez
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the general in his labyrinth - gabriel garcía márquez
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"En verdad hay sentimientos que es mejor que se queden en lo platónico; y es mejor recordarlos así, irreales, inacabados, porque eso es lo que los hace perfectos."
Gabriel García Márquez
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