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“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...”
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”
“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to ...”
“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...”
“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.”
“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.”
“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to ...”
“The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.”
“While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.”
“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 well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just ...”
