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  1. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.
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  2. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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  3. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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  4. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    ...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love
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  5. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    There's no greater misfortune than dying alone."
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  6. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
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  7. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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  8. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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  9. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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  10. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance."
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  11. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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  12. Gabriel García Márquez _ Memories of My Melancholy

    The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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