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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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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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In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and...more

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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

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Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing...more

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Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which ...more

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At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly wi...more

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Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his r...more

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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

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...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.