"It was a meditation on life, love,..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

“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.”

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

“And a man's life's no more than to say "One."”

“We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.”

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”

“To love beauty is to see light.”

“The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.”

“In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.”