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t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm a...more

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

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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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Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a se...more

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It is easier to start a war than to end it.

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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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There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

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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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The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been sur...more

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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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We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no f...more

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Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under h...more

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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