"She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory."
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"I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading."
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"The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining."
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"More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude."
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"he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins."
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"If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate."
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"Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened."
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"What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you."
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"He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words."
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"Music is important for one's health."
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"She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know."
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"She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it ."
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"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation."
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"It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line."
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"He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself."
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"Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing."
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"Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments."
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"With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse."
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"A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by."
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"I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams."
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