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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and ...more

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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give ...more

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring hims...more

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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the ...more

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Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does ...more

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Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creatur...more

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

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I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

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as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

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The dead never go to their own funeral.

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I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of th...more