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“ ”She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
About Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, journalist and activist. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Additional quotes by Gabriel García Márquez
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.