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He walked out into a different city, one that was perfumed by the last dahlias of June, and onto a street out of his youth, where the shadowy widowsfr...more

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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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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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Florentino Ariza never had anotheropportunity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in the many chanceencounters of their very long lives until fifty-o...more

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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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Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking ofher for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out ofhand after a long an...more

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

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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servil...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

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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.

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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...more

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It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

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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 tha...more