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[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship forme...more

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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

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What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad a...more

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Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a se...more

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It is easier to start a war than to end it.

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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

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He always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to himself that this was a lie for the sake of convenien...more

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Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero

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...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, be...more

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Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they kill you or even...more