"An early-rising man is a good spouse..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”

“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.”

“I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”

“A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.”

“When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.”

“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”

“What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”