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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to...more

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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

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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.

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My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

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She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

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At eighty-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 w...more

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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 ...more

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiem...more

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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

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...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ...more