The literary giant Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel prize in literature winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez poses for a portrait session on February 20,1991 in Cartagena, Colombia. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

With Former US President Bill ClintonCartagena, Colombia: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks with Colombian writer and 1982 Literature Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez during the IV International Congress of the Spanish Language on March 26, 2007 in Cartagena, Colombia. Paying homage to Garcia Marquez, the Congress was inaugurated in the Caribbean port of Cartagena, with the attendance of 1.200 people and the presence of Spanish King Juan Carlos. (Photo by Presidencia /AFP/Getty Images)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning athor, seen in this 1982 file photo, had a cancerous tumor removed from his lung Thursday, according to doctor at the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic in Bogota, Colombia. A statement from the clinic said the prognosis was but gave few details. Garcia Marquez, 65, won the Nobel prize for Leteratur in 1982. (AP-Photo) 1982

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows his award to the audience, following the presentation in the Concert Hall, Stockholm, Oct. 12, 1982. (AP Photo/Pool) 

'Gabo' And Mexican Writer Carlos FuentesMexican writer Carlos Fuentes is congratulated by Nobel Prize winner Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez during a celebration for Fuentes' 80th birthday in Mexico City, on November 17, 2008. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is all smiles after the announcement that he was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature 19 October 1982 in Mexico City. (Photo credit should read Stefan Wallgren /AFP/Getty Images)

With Fidel CastroThis file picture from December 15, 1986, shows former Cuban President Fidel Castro (C), Nobel Literature Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) and movie director Fernando Birri (R) during the inauguration of the International School of Cinema in San Antonio de los Banos, Havana province. (Photo by Adalberto Roque /AFP/Getty Images)

Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez answers journalists' questions aftre having been announced as winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 25 October 1982 in Mexico City. (Hasse Persson /AFP/Getty Images)

Portrait of Colombian author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. May 1972. (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images)

Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez reacts as he arrives at a dinner in honor of U.S. President Barack Obama at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City on April 16, 2009. Obama is in Mexico on a 24-hour visit. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Visiting His Hometown Of AracatacaSanta Marta, Colombia: Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, sitting in the carriage alongside his wife Mercedes Barcha, smiles upon arriving at his hometown Aracataca by train 30 May, 2007 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Garcia Marquez didn't visit Aracataca in 20 years. (Photo by Alejandra Vega /AFP/Getty Images)

'Gabo'Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez gestures during a celebration for Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes' 80th birthday in Mexico City, on November 17, 2008. The octogenarian writer released a new book next October called "Yo no vengo a decir un discurso" (I am not here to deliver a speech), which collected together 22 texts that were written with the purpose of being read in public. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

'Gabo' And Evo MoralesHAVANA, CUBA: Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) speaks with Bolivian President Evo Morales at Revolution Square in Havana, during a military parade celebrating President Fidel Castro's 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. (Photo by Baltazar Mesa /AFP/Getty Images)

'Gabo' In CartagenaCartagena, Colombia: Colombian writer and Nobel Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez waves to fans, after the inauguration of IV International Congress of the Spanish Language, in Cartagena, Colombia, on March 26, 2007. (Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images)

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

From Love in the Time of Cholera

"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.“

From his autobiography Living To Tell The Tale

"He who awaits much can expect little"

From No One Writes To The Colonel

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

From One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.”

From Memories Of My Melancholy Whores

"I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits."

From Love in the Time of Cholera

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot.“

From Of Love and Other Demons

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

From Love in the Time of Cholera

"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."

From The General In His Labyrinth

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

From Love In The Time Of Cholera

“There is always something left to love.”

From One Hundred Years Of Solitude

I have learned so much from you men... I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope. I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father's finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever. I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying.

Gabriel García Márquez: La Marioneta, The Puppet, If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life…

gracias, Gabriel…

Tantas cosas he aprendido de ustedes los hombres... He aprendido que todo el mundo quiere vivir en la cima de la montaña, sin saber que la verdadera felicidad está en la forma de subir la escarpada. He aprendido que cuando un recién nacido aprieta con su pequeño puño por vez primera el dedo de su padre, lo tiene atrapado para siempre. He aprendido que un hombre únicamente tiene derecho de mirar otro hombre hacia abajo, cuando ha de ayudarlo a levantarse. Son tantas cosas las que he podido aprender de ustedes, pero finalmente de mucho no habrán de servir porque cuando me guarden dentro de esta maleta, infelizmente me estaré muriendo...

Gabriel García Márquez: La Marioneta, Si por un instante Dios se olvidara de que soy una marioneta de trapo y me regalara un trozo de vida…

gracias, Gabriel…

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