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Quotes & Thinkers from Colombia
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"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets."
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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez
Literature
magic realism
1927–2014
"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."
60 quotes
🇨🇴Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Philosophy
1913–1994
"Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent."
125 quotes
🇨🇴Tatiana de la tierra
Literature
1961–2012
"Crying is bullshit. In a certain way, everything fits. When you’re alive, you fit. You may not fit within certain particulars, but that’s when you self-publish. That’s the good thing about today…"
3 quotes
🇨🇴Santiago Martínez Delgado
Art
Art Deco
1906–1954
"Martinez finished a stained window; inventing a tropical Deco, I can almost smell that he is from South America and has the tropics in his spirit."
9 quotes
🇨🇴Samael Aun Weor
Literature
1917–1977
"The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind."
8 quotes
🇨🇴Íngrid Betancourt
Politics
"Q: I have read that you also, at least sometimes, had a chain around your neck, and you were tied to a tree?"
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🇨🇴Jose Stevens
Psychology
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🇨🇴Natalia Villaveces
Entertainment
b. 1979
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🇨🇴Alfonso Uribe Misas
Politics
1886–1984
"History has a long patience, and wait centuries and centuries to condemn the defamation of men."
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Notable Quotes
"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
— Gabriel García Márquez, b. 1927View →
"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
— Gabriel García Márquez, b. 1927View →
"Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile."
— Gabriel García Márquez, b. 1927View →
"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."
— Gabriel García Márquez, b. 1927View →
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
— Gabriel García Márquez, b. 1927View →