Did Gabriel Garcia Marquez really say 'I don't believe in happiness. I believe in joy.'?

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I don't believe in happiness. I believe in joy.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Modern · One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Attributed, suggesting a distinction between fleeting happiness and profound joy.

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