"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
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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 servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ."
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"He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart."
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"When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her."
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry."
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"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
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"Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant."
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"The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die."
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"I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life."
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"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
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"Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart."
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"My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic."
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"Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love."
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"I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time."
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"Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country."
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"All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write."
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"...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs."
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"Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry."
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"The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied."
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"A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain."
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