gabriel garcia marquez

“ There is always something left to love. ”

“ It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ”

“ Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. ”

“ A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. ”

“ I've always been convinced that my true profession is that of journalist. ”

“ I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. ”

“ Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain. ”

“ Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. ”

“ What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. ”

“ This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.' ”