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...
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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.
مايؤلمني في الموت هو ألا أموت حبا
الشرف هو الحب , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول
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...
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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...
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of cr...
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: I did not know that fellow was a poet. And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical ma...
You can't come in, colonel, she told him. You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all...
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground. Ursula stood up to him. In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,
We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not i...
La caza de amor es de altanería. GIL VICENTE
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.