"One had to live a long time..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It's much more important to write than to be written about.”

“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.”

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.”

“Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.”

“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.”

“What is life? A continuous praise and blame.”

“Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.”

“Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.”

“The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.”