The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger

In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.

(The captive voice, far away,
put on a cricket's clothes.)

- The Little Mute Boy
Translated by William S. Merwin


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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do no...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang...
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning
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Siempre había pensado que dejar de creer causaba una cicatriz imborrable en el lugar donde estuvo l...
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Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be th...
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«¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués.
«Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl...
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Ningún loco está loco si uno se conforma con sus razones.
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Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' sa...
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the...
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I live in fear of being alive.
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Ella le preguntó por esos días si era verdad, como decían las canciones, que el amor lo podía to...
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe i...
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Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una depende...
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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