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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

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The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appeti...more

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Nigromanta took him to her room, which was lighted with false candlesticks, to her folding cot with the bedding stained from bad loves, and to her bod...more

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She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning ...more

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The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretens...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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nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love

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We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will ...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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Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love

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Josè Arcadio felt himself lifted up into the air toward a state of seraphic inspiration, where his heart burst forth with an outpouring of tender obsc...more