“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.”

— Gabriel García Márquez · Love quote

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. — Gabriel García Márquez quote card
Novelist and journalist · 1927 – 2014

Colombian novelist and journalist, pioneer of magical realism and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982). His masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most translated and beloved novels of the twentieth century.

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