Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.
No one understood why she had not died of hunger until the Indians, who were aware of everything, for they went ceaselessly about the house on their stealthy feet, discovered that Rebeca only liked to...
No entendía cómo se llegaba al extremo de hacer una guerra por cosas que no podían tocarse con las manos.
Nada en este mundo debe ser más tremendo que los escombros de un hombre.
Love is the only thing that interests me.
Ljubomora zna više i od same istine.''''Čovjek u seksu nalazi utjehu kad mu se ne posreći u ljubavi.''''Žena nikad ne oprašta muškarcu koji ostaje ravnodušan prema njenim čarima.
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The...
Let me soap you, he murmured.Thank you for your good intentions, she said, but my two hands are quite enough.Even if it's just your back, the foreigner begged.That would be silly, she said. People nev...
La nostalgia, como siempre, había borrado los malos recuerdos y magnificado los buenos.
It can'r rain for ever
In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argum...
In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index finger, and painted the pubis of the beautiful pigeon fancier with an arrow of bloo...
Ils s'aimèrent deux fois par semaine pendant plus de trois mois, protégés par l'innocente complicité d'Aureliano le Second qui ajoutait foi, sans penser à mal, aux alibis de sa fille, simplement pour...
I understood that he was my host, though he only glanced at me and walked by, and I did not have the audacity to signal to him in any way. He hurried into the station and came out again minutes later...
I think it is against nature for a man to get along better with his dog than he does with his wife, to teach it to eat and defecate on schedule, to answer his questions and share his sorrows.
I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bew...
I live in fear of being alive.
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enter...
I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man...
I am not talking to you, said Abrenuncio. I think in Low Latin.