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“She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What ...”
“She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.”
“A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.”
“Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on th...”
“...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...”
“our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another”
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
“The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.”
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the...”
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that ...”
“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.”
“Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His black...”
“...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.”
“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...”
“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 ...”
