The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.
Weitere Zitate von Gabriel García Márquez
Zum Autor"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.."
"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."
"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
"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."
"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."
"The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love."