Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time, she would say with a malevolent smile, you’ll see.

she said that scholars may know it all, but they don’t know everything

No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure

This was all that life gave me, and I have never done anything to obtain more.

that’s where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives

Let no one be deceived, no, thinking that what he awaits will last longer than what he has seen

I cried over you for twenty-two years.

I discovered that I am not disciplined our of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I passed myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.