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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her hear...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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Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of...more

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but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

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