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“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.”
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesnt die when he should but when he can.”
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: a y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in t...”
“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”
“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”
“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.”
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”
“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 their own time, turning into memories, mists from ...”
“You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio”
“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they kill you or even if you die. And go now while you're still youn...”
“Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les vea volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvanecindose poco a poco en su tiempo, volvindose recuerdos, brumas de otra poca, ha...”
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”
“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 of his body and its dispersion and extermination.”
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
“Horses frighten me as much as chickens do, he said.That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress, said Abrenuncio. If we ever broke down the barriers, we cou...”
