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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

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But in those solitary Masses they began to be aware that once again they were mistresses of their fate, after having renounced not only their family n...more

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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ...more

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Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of ...more

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We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no f...more

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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will n...more

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She clung to her husband. And it was just at the time when he needed her most, because he suffered the disadvantage of being ten years ahead of her as...more

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She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to me...more

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but tha...more

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Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little t...more