What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
What does he say?' he asked.'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.''Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he...
We'll grow old waiting.
Una droga más dañina que las mal llamadas heroicas se introdujo en la cultura nacional: el dinero fácil. Prosperó la idea de que la ley es el mayor obstáculo para la felicidad, que de nada sirve apren...
Un trueno retumbó en la casa y se escapó rodando por el mar, y un aguacero bíblico los apartó del resto del mundo. El obispo se tendió en el mecedor y naufragó en la nostalgia.<<¡Qué lejos estamos!>>,...
Timp de sase ore examina toate lucrurile, încercînd sa gaseasca o deosebire fata de aspectul lor din ziua precedenta, straduindu-se sa descopere în ele o cît de mica schimbare care sa-i dezvaluie scur...
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or someone who wanted to go off and sleep forever because he could not stand...
Then he crossed his arms over his chest and began to listen to the radiant voices of the slaves singing the six o'clock Salve in the mills, and through the window he saw the diamond of Venus in the sk...
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love. All that remained were the dusty almon...
The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.
The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
The Marquis dusted off the Italian theorbo. He restrung it, tuned it with a perseverance that could be understood only as love, and once again accompanied the songs of the past, sung with the good voi...
The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognize the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate o...
That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of pow...
También de allí puede venir mi convicción de que son ellas las que sostienen el mundo, mientras los hombres lo desordenamos con nuestra brutalidad histórica.
Tal vez lo más colombiano de la situación era la asombrosa capacidad de la gente de Medellín para acostumbrarse a todo, lo bueno y lo malo, con un poder de recuperación que quizás sea la fórmula más c...
Sus sueños terminaban frente a ese mar color de ceniza, espumoso y sucio, que no merecía los riesgos y sacrificios de su aventura.