He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
Gabriel García Márquez
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense. BRANDON LOW You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window." "He wasn... CASSANDRA CLARE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN It was intense out there. Each match is getting more and more intense. MAX VENKER Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the nobl... VIVEK PEREIRA At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Gabriel told me he'd bought the watch for his ex-girlfriend, but she didn't like it. She said that o... NICHOLAS HOULT The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all... NIKOLA TESLA 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON He was one of our best defenders. He was our point guard, and he was forced to play that spot even t... BRIAN ROGERS He was just so much more intense than everybody else. Lube played football like it was his heart and... BILL RENNER He was just so much more intense than everybody else, ... Lube played football like it was his heart... BILL RENNER When he took over an absolute mockery of a franchise, John said two things - he was going to run the... BOB LAMONTE And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Tom Hicks said that he was going to come to Puerto Rico and give it his best shot. He did all that a... DAVID SLOANE With two guys on, you have to go after them with your best pitch, and for me, that is a fastball. Th... BOBBY JENKS Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serio... ELEANOR CATTON The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more success... JAMES ALLEN He showed me that there was another world where strangers helped strangers for no other reason than ... HYEONSEO LEE Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can res... KATE MCGAHAN We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviou... CRAIG NEWMARK . . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I saw right away that high-school wrestling was a lot more intense. The matches are longer and there... ADAM SCHUH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said s... DENISE HUNTER The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA I said to them to step it up, raise your level of play and be more intense. The team responded, part... DAVE NUTTING I was more frustrated with the first runner getting on base more than anything. It was pretty much a... AMY SULLIVAN There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ What terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn't know what that said about himsel... SARAH J. MAAS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe... CRAIG GROESCHEL Love for shorter duration is going to be more intense and more fulfilling, and more memorable. GIRDHAR JOSHI I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows o... EAVAN BOLAND He and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift — the three of them — represented a new age in acting.... JOHN TRAVOLTA He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was ... KURT VONNEGUT That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM It was amazing how our minds crafted stories for strangers who probably needed love more than our cl... BRITTAINY C. CHERRY Do you love me, that's all," he said. "That's the only thing that matters." It was the language... MARGARET ATWOOD Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never min... CASSANDRA CLARE Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the mor... GILBERT BURNET He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. ANN BRASHARES Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for S... DREW NELLINS SMITH If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you... BRADY QUINN I haven't seen anything that was said that he knew that by learning to fly an airplane, one: it woul... DAVID BAUGH And I think, OK. So a dog isn't the most important thing. But a dog like Honey loves one person comp... MEG ROSOFF What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was... STEPHENIE MEYER The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER There was a lot of emotion involved. To be honest, I have more respect for Martin than since the day... JONATHON SHOCKEY He's so brutally honest at times that it can catch you off guard. The best thing about his honesty i... BRADY QUINN There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Do you remember when I first told you that we were different--that we were meant to be together?" Em... CHANTELLE NAY I hope it sells millions, ... But more immediately, my real excitement was the idea that Kubrick was... CHRIS ISAAK And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the... V.E. SCHWAB We'd get nothing but hell every day. It was more intense. You could see the passion in him that week... CHADD MOORE I had hoped to be the most improved, I was really, really trying. I had a really hard time showing e... CASEY LEBLANC I had hoped to be the most improved, I was really, really trying. I had a really hard time showing e... CASEY LEBLANC The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and ... ALAN HANSEN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to ot... EMILE M. CIORAN Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said i... ORSON SCOTT CARD It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex... DON DELILLO He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was project... DEXTER PALMER There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense lov... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surpris... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We played with a lot more emotion. It was fun. I loved it. JOE SANDERS When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker o... RACHEL HIGGINSON You can't really overlook the Valentine's Day aspect. Every one of his previous albums, except two, ... CHRIS ROBERTS He (Lackey) had a base open ... and I was trying to resist the urge to think that he was gong to wal... PAUL KONERKO He said that he felt he made a mistake, that it wasn't feeling good. I think when he finally analyze... DON COOK There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart ... MICHAEL MOORCOCK It was a very intense game. It opened my eyes. It was a little more physical than I thought. CODY RINCKER Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more ... CHARLES DUKE I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell ... RICHARD SCHIFF My objective was not to get a big settlement. It was more to make a statement that what he did was w... JEFF FLEMING You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There w... CASSANDRA CLARE I was walking with Mike Weir, and Mike said he was more nervous watching these guys putt than he was... ADAM SCOTT It's one more step in that growing process that would bring an additional patient base to the commun... WILLIAM WEBSTER There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more in... THOMAS MANN Brother Connor not only said he did not remember the two incidents, he categorically denied the accu... PAUL CHEVEDDEN She would get more excited and show more emotion when she would make the pass and earn an assist or ... KATHLEEN SINRAM I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more characte... GEORGE CLOONEY You're going to get more dependence, and that's an increased tax burden on everybody. MICHAEL CANNON I asked him what the prognosis was. And he said that without medication, my life expectancy was abou... ANDREA ADAMS Because Adam practised at many things, Adam was good at many things, but this – what was it even c... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was a... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ أن النساء يفكرن بالمعنى الخفي للأسئلة أكثر من تفكيرهن �... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sak... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Only God knows how much I love you. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: t... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I’ve remained a virgin for you. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans sav... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ثمة خوف يعذبني على الدوام من أنّ الطائرة ستسقط GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Era ancora troppo giovane per sapere che la memoria del cuore elimina i brutti ricordi e magnifica q... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always f... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet. "May God have mercy on you," he said. And er... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Science has eliminated distance. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It is easier to start a war than to end it. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Bătrânețea este o stare indecentă care trebuie oprită la timp. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Time put things in their place. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ «Какой сегодня день?» - Аурелиано ответил ему, что втор�... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ أيها الجبان. الأسوأ كان قد انقضى GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves wit... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age." He said it for no ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Dadme un prejuicio y moveré el mundo. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through . GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca... CRISTINA GARCíA Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll... CRISTINA GARCíA There is good news tonight. GABRIEL HEATTER I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi... GABRIEL BYRNE I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,... GABRIEL BYRNE I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha... GABRIEL BYRNE It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon... GABRIEL BYRNE Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali... GABRIEL BYRNE Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi... GABRIEL BYRNE I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time. GABRIEL BASSO You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazin... GABRIEL BASSO I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public. GABRIEL BASSO I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui... GABRIEL BASSO I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports. GABRIEL BASSO Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half... GABRIEL BASSO I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't... GABRIEL BASSO I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t... GABRIEL BASSO