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“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.” (The General in His Labyrinth Quotes)
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control. “The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books,” he would say.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, ‘Damn it,’ he sighed. ‘How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“I’ll never fall in love again… it’s like having two souls at the same time.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“Someone had told the General that when a dog died it had to be replaced without delay by another just like it, and with the same name, so you could go on believing it was the same animal. He did not agree. He always wanted them to be distinctive so he could remember them all with their own identities, their yearning eyes and eager spirits, and could mourn their deaths.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“There is great power in the irresistible force of love.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
“You’re a great man, General, greater than anyone,” she told him. “But love is still too big for you.”
Gabriel García Márquez
The General in His Labyrinth
