«Es una lástima, porque la incomunicación con los caballos ha retrasado a la humanidad», dijo Abrenuncio. «Si alguna vez la rompiéramos podríamos fabricar el centauro».
Tenía la facultad casi mágica de no enterarse de las cosas que no soportaba.
He could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand
Usted puede prohibirme lo que quiera y yo le cumplo'. Y concluyó: 'Lo malo es que no puede prohibirme lo que pienso'.
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved eac...
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
Someone had told the General that when a dog died it had to be replaced without delay by another just like it, and with the same name, so you could go on believing it was the same animal. He did not a...
Siempre pensé que morir de amor solo era una licencia poética.
She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. My God! Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. What I woul...
Porque un muerto puede ser feliz con su situación irremediable. Pero un vivo no puede resignarse a ser enterrado vivo.
Only a person without principles can be so complaisant towards grief.
Não precisou de abrir a janela para identificar Dezembro. Descobriu-o nos seus próprios ossos.
Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.
No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad.
Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor.
Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts of guns hot wounds, ridges of the razor cuts of love, Caesarean sections sewn up by butchers. Some...
Lo esperaba despierto hasta el amanecer, en la cama solitaria que parecía tener una estera de brasas, y seguían hablando sin sueño hasta la hora de levantarse, de modo que muy pronto padecieron ambos...