Gabriel García Márquez

Of Love and Other Demons

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for the first time since losing his faith, he felt the urge to pray. he went to the oratory, trying with all his strength to recover the god that had forsaken him, but to no avail. disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. 

“we cannot intervene in the rotation of earth” said Delaura

“but we could be unaware of it so that it does not cause us grief,” said the Bishop. “more than faith, what Galileo lacked was a heart.”

he confessed that every moment was filled with thoughts of her, that everything he ate and drank tasted of her, that she was his life, always and everywhere, as only God had the right and power to be, and that the supreme joy of his heart would be to die with her.

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