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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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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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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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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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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

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The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

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Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking ofher for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out ofhand after a long an...more

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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

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And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused...more