Thursday, October 31, 2013

THE PUPPET - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez



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If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say.



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I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean.




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I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.



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I would walk when the others loiter; I would awaken when the others sleep.




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I would listen when the others speak, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream.



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If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply, I would throw myself flat under the sun, exposing not only my body but also my soul.



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My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. With a dream of Van Gogh I would paint on the stars a poem by Benedetti, and a song by Serrat would be my serenade to the moon.



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With my tears I would water the roses, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals...My God, if I only had a scrap of life...



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I wouldn't let a single day go by without saying to people I love, that I love them.





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I would convince each woman or man that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love.




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I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To a child I would give wings, but I would let him learn how to fly by himself. To the old I would teach that death comes not with old age but with forgetting. I have learned so much from you men....




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I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.





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I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father's finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever.





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I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying.


translated by Matthew Taylor and Rosa Arelis Taylor