"Her nakedness was not absolute, for like..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.”

“Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.”

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”

“That strain again! It had a dying fall:O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet soundThat breathes upon a bank of violets,Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:'Tis not so sweet as it was before.”

“A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.”

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

“Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.”

“In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.”