Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.įrom ‘Love in the Time of Cholera‘, which was first published in Spanish in 1985. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. No other achievement, according to Márquez, came close to the state of loving wholeheartedly and being loved. García Márquez saw love as an end in itself. An end in itself.įrom ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Everyone is capable of love and being loved, and only through vulnerability can people make connections with others.Īge has no reality except in the physical world.

Love remains a prominent theme in Márquez’s oeuvre. In his 2004 book ‘Memories of My Melancholy Whores’. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams, He recognised her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: ‘Only God knows how much I loved you.’

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