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加布里尔·加西亚·马尔克斯小说家，写作语言为西班牙语。作为一个天才的、赢得广泛赞誉的小说家，加西亚·马尔克斯将现实主义与幻想结合起来，创造了一部风云变幻的哥伦比亚和整个南美大陆的神话般的历史。

以下这封信据传是加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯(Gabriel García Márquez，1928年3月6日-，哥伦比亚人，1982年因《百年孤独》获诺贝尔文学奖)，得知自己身患绝症(1999年得淋巴癌)后对人生的感言。

If God, for a second, forgot what I have become and granted me

a little bit more of life,

I would use it to the best of my ability.

I wouldn’t possibly, say everything that is in my mind,

but I would be more thoughtful of all I say.

I would give merit to things not for what they are worth,

but for what they mean to express.

I would sleep little, I would dream more,

because I know that for every minute that we close our eyes,

we waste 60 seconds of light.

I would walk while others stop; I would awake while others sleep.

If God would give me a little bit more of life,

I would dress in a simple manner,

I would place myself in front of the sun,

leaving not only my body, but my soul naked at its mercy.

To all men I would say how mistaken they are

when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old,

without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

I would give wings to children,

but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.