I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end
I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I a...
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
For that was what he needed: to let his soul escape through his mouth.
For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi’s lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium. Úrsula abandoned her. She did not even raise her eyes to pity her on...
En las dos últimas horas de su vida no logró entender por qué había desaparecido el miedo que lo atormentó desde la infancia. Impasible, sin preocuparse siquiera por demostrar su reciente valor, escuc...
En adelanto van estos lugares: ya tienen su diosa coronada.
Ella había ido descubriendo poco a poco la incertidumbre de los pasos de su marido, sus trastornos de humor, las fisuras de su memoria, su costumbre reciente de sollozar dormido pero no los identificó...
But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.
But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Aveva domandato a Dio di concederle almeno un istante affinchè lui non se ne andasse senza sapere quanto lo avesse amato al di là ei dubbi reciproci, e aveva sentito un’urgenza irresistibile di ricomi...
At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, an...
As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride.
Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune...
Amaranta, aki a ruhákat rakosgatta a útiládába, azt hitte, hogy az anyját skorpiócsípés érte. – Hol van? – kérdezte rémülten. – Micsoda? – A féreg – mondta Amaranta. Ursula a szívére bökött: – Itt.
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. The fell on the town all through the night in a...
Þeir flutu rótlaust í straumi heims sem var liðinn undir lok og ekkert eftir af, annað en eftirsjáin.
It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical woman.
A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.It's coming, she finally explained. Something frigh...
Მძღნერო, - ვუთხარი ორეულს, - აი, დარდი, თუ არ გიყვარვარ!