Viéndolo montar picaportes y desconectar relojes, Fernanda se preguntó si no estaría incurriendo también en el vicio de hacer para deshacer, como el coronel Aureliano Buendía con los pescaditos de oro...
Uvijek je bilo tako: svaki je događaj, ugodan ili neugodan, imao nekakvu vezu s njom.
Ursula fu l’ultima della sfilata. La dignità del suo lutto, il peso del suo nome, la convincente veemenza della sua dichiarazione fecero vacillare per un attimo la bilancia della giustizia. Voi avete...
Una noche se embadurnaron de pies a cabeza con melocotones en almíbar, se lamieron como perros y se amaron como locos en el piso del corredor, y fueron despertados por un torrente de hormigas carnicer...
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
Then she told him to look in the bedroom and Aureliano Segundo saw the mule. Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. Petra Cotes had...
The symptoms of love are the same as those of cholera.
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
Taciturno, silencioso, insensible al nuevo soplo de vitalidad que estremecía la casa, el coronel Aureliano Buendía apenas si comprendió que el secreto de una buena vejez no es otra cosa que un pacto h...
Siempre he dicho que los celos saben más que la verdad.
She would go to sleep only once and that would be to die.
Porque un muerto puede ser feliz con su situación irremediable.
Pero el poder —como el amor— es de doble filo: se ejerce y se padece.
Only god knows how much I loved you.
One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever.
One nail draws another.
One has to live a long time to know a man’s true nature.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.