A single minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
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I would sleep less, dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light.

classic quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

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Don't spend time with someone who is not willing to spend it with you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 13 Lines to Live By
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On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Big Mama's Funeral (1962)
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Dr. Juvenal Urbino: I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.

classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Edith Grossman
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