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A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

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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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It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but tha...more

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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

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You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be ali...more

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But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another th...more

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... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish ...more

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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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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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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