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t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm a...more

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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

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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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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

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She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

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At eighty-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 w...more

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The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment ...more

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Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiem...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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Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under h...more

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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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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in the...more