Gabriel García Márquez: … no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.

… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to — Gabriel García Márquez

… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.

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Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in o — Gabriel García Márquez
It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so wel — Gabriel García Márquez
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an imme — Gabriel García Márquez
… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love. — Gabriel García Márquez
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. — Oscar Wilde
Pocas o ninguna vez se cumple con la ambición que no sea con daño de tercero. — Miguel de Cervantes
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize ou — Albert Einstein
Et à quoi bon exécuter des projets, puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouiss — Charles Baudelaire
I believe that I am today acting according to the purposes of the almighty Creat — Adolf Hitler
I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself. — Michel de Montaigne
To procure a refreshing sneeze at anytime by merely stepping out on the staircas — Charles Dickens
The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it right! — William Shakespeare