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.
Sjećaj me se s ružom - rekao joj je.
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...
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,
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...
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...
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.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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...
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave...
As he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.
But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but...
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world.
She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the se...
It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good
He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of so many cows, pigs and chickens for the endless parties that the ground...
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
He read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..