«Una cosa que salió tan mal en la vida no puede salir bien en un libro».
«Soy un hombre que se viste en las tinieblas».
«No importa», decía José Arcadio Buendía. «Lo esencial es no perder la orientación.»
«No hay medicina que cure lo que no cura la felicidad».
«Eres el único hombre que, al despertar, no recuerda nada de lo que ha soñado».
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
We’ve had more enemies than we had soldiers,
They brought the Bible and syphilis, they made people believe that life was easy, mother, that everything is gotten with money, that blacks carry a contagion, they tried to convince our soldiers that...
The only convincing document he could write was a love letter.
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Love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
In this world of everything
His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
Government guarantees on its word of honor
All that was needed was a feeling of primitive and as simple as that of love
A...look that seemed to know what there was on the other side of things.
[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.
[...] asumí la condición extraña de exiliado dentro de mi propio país, que es la forma más amarga del exilio.
Yo, Miguel Littín, hijo de Hernán y Cristina, director de cine y uno de los cinco mil chilenos con prohibición absoluta de regresar, estaba de nuevo en mi país después de doce años de exilio, aunque t...
We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. he said.If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die replied Ursula wi...