"The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed."
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"Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said."
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"He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most."
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"He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter"
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"Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one."
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"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
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"Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything."
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"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
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"For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for."
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"Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle."
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"Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk."
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"In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation."
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"It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat."
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"Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies."
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"No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever."
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"Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?"
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"One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
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"There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was."
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"I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love."
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"The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August."
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