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“...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.”
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was ...”
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opport...”
“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went...”
“She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved th...”
“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.”
“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero”
“Children inherit their parents' madness.”
“That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody’s having to butt in, and you can whispe...”
“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.”
