"She was lost in her longing to..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”

“The only everyday and eternal reality was love.”

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”

“The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.”

“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.”

“People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'”

“I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.”

“Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?”

“I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.”