"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."
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"A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons."
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"There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck."
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"Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping."
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"I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives."
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"It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself."
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"The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight."
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"and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love."
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"...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later."
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"He who awaits much can expect little."
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"He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians."
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"Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion."
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"When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy."
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"In the end all books are written for your friends."
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"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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"The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen."
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"I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise."
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"She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake."
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"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
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