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“It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good”
“The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.”
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
“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 while he slept, but she did not identify these...”
“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of...”
“He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, th...”
“Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,”
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged...”
“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
“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.”
“Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.”
“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 with a simple change of position while he slept, ...”
“...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.”
“..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..”
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it wa...”
“Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no sto...”
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”
“Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themsel...”
“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”
