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

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work th...more

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed whil...more

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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have noth...more

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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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He walked out into a different city, one that was perfumed by the last dahlias of June, and onto a street out of his youth, where the shadowy widowsfr...more

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to...more

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Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

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four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to ...more

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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when t...more

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Florentino Ariza never had anotheropportunity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in the many chanceencounters of their very long lives until fifty-o...more

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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

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The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been sur...more