It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not tak…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.
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Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). Chronicle of a Death Foretold, p.44, Penguin UK
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

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