"In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary."
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"And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life."
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"He governed as if he felt predestined to never die"
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"As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance."
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"It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity."
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"Curiosity is one of the many masks of love."
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"The only everyday and eternal reality was love."
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"We'll grow old waiting."
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"In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice."
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"He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape."
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
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"Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die."
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"I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain."
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"It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia."
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"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
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"I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone."
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"It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending."
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"Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love."
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"There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age."
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"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."
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