The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.
Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,
Hasta los desperdicios del amor triste de las ciudades nos llegaron en la hojarasca y construyeron pequeñas casas de madera, e hicieron primero un rincón donde medio catre era el sombrío hogar para un...
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral convention...
Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans savoir combien elle l'avait aimé par-delà leurs doutes à tous les deux, et senti un désir irrésistible de...
También la moral es un asunto de tiempo, decía, con una sonrisa maligna, ya verás.
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...
Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédiable de mourir sans elle, la regarda une dernière fois, pour toujours et à jamais, avec les yeux les plu...
Descobri que a minha obsessão de que cada coisa estivesse no seu lugar, cada assunto no seu tempo, cada palavra no seu estilo, não era o prémio merecido de uma mente ordenada mas, pelo contrário, um s...
… она слышала <…> глубокую, пропитанную запахом растоптанных цветов тишину («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)
Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.''Saint Thomas said it, and I will...
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed is as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried on...
We are the orphans of our son.
The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in the lost paradise of the deluge, splashing in the puddles in the courtyard, killing lizards to hang on...
Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackhea...
No sentía sed ni hambre. No sentía nada, aparte de una indeferencia general por la vida y la muerte. Pensé que me estaba muriendo. Y esa idea me llenó de una extraña y oscura esperanza.