With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not...
When his father told him about his alarm at having forgotten even the most impressive happenings of his childhood, Aureliano explained his method to him […] with an inked brush he marked everything wi...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.
Whatever happened to one love affected all the other loves through out the world.
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...
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: s...
The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.
The mayor informed General Petronio San Roman of the episode, down to the last literal phrase, in an alarming telegram. General San Roman must have followed his son's wishes to the letter, because he...
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 woman of unbreakable nerves who at no moment in her life had been heard to sing.
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, she said to him, because these things don’t last your whole life.
Sólo en aquel momento tuve conciencia de cuán largos y devastadores eran los años del exilio. Y no solo para los que nos fuimos, como lo creía hasta entonces, sino también para ellos: los que se queda...
Sus sueños terminaban frente a ese mar color de ceniza, espumoso y sucio, que no merecía los riesgos y sacrificios de su aventura.
Su risa era triste y taciturna, como si no fuera el resultado de un sentimiento actual, sino como si la tuviera guardada en la gaveta y no la sacara sino en los momentos indispensables, pero usándola...
She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had straight black hair that reached to her shoulders, and an aura of antiquity that could just as w...
Se dio cuenta de que el coronel Aureliano Buendía no le había perdido el cariño a la familia a causa del endurecimiento de la guerra, como ella creía antes, sino que nunca había querido a nadie, ni si...
Por eso, cada vez que Úrsula se salía de casillas con las locuras de su marido, saltaba por encima de trescientos años de casualidades y maldecía la hora en que Francis Drake asaltó a Riohacha. Era un...
Pero sabía, más por escarmiento que por experiencia, que una felicidad tan fácil no podría durar mucho tiempo.