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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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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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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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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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Shame has poor memory.

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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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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

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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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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

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She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she f...more

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At eight-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 wi...more

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I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the wel...more