Gabriel García Márquez

"Merciful God!' sighed the General. 'We've arrived.' And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world."

"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."

"The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power."

"The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love."

"The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination."

"Don't open that door,' she said. 'The hallway is full of difficult dreams.' And I asked her: 'How do you know?' And she told me: 'Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart."

"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."

"Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love."

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."