"She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love ."
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"Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with."
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"Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love."
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"They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything."
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"The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it."
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"It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them."
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"An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes."
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"Fatality makes us invisible."
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"That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think ."
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"While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person."
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"And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love."
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"In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down."
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"In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting."
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"Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him."
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"Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown."
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"An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path."
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"Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity."
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"When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat."
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"The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name."
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"You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day."
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