"I would sleep little, dream more." Gabriel Garcia Marquez - of the most valuable in life

Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was ill with cancer. Sensing the approach of death, he wrote a farewell letter. In it Marquez talks about what do not have time and that was really valuable in his life. Read, because this man has a lot to learn.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colombian writer and novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. The author of the famous novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

If for a moment God forgot that I am a rag doll and gave me a bit of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think; I would have thought more about what I say.

I would value things not for their value, but for their significance.

I would sleep little, dream more, knowing that every minute with your eyes closed - we lose sixty seconds of light.

I would walk when the others loiter, I would wake when others sleep, I would listen when others talk.

And how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream!

If God gave me a bit of life, I would dress simply, up to the first ray of sun, exposing not only the body but also the soul.

My God, if I'd had a little more time, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. I would paint on the stars as Van Gogh, dreaming, reading poems by Benedetti, and a song Serra would be my serenade to the moon. I would water the roses with my tears, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals.

My God, if I had a little bit of life... I would not have missed the day to talk to people I love that I love them.

I would convince each woman and each man that I love them, I would live in love with love.

I would prove people how wrong they are, thinking that as they age, the longer love; on the contrary, they grow old because they stop falling in love!

Child I would give wings, and he would teach him to fly.

The old I would teach that death comes not with age, but with forgetting.

I have learned so much from you men.

I have learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness awaits him on the descent.

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

I realized that the person has the right to look down on another only in order to help him to his feet.

I learned so much from you, but the truth is that most of it will benefit, because it stuffed the trunk, I'm leaving.