"and realized that death was not only..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
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“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
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“The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.”
“He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread”
“I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.”
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“The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.”
“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"”
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”