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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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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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Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

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My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

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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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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