Y una vez más se estremeció con la comprobación de que el tiempo no pasaba, como ella lo acababa de admitir, sino que daba vueltas en redondo.
Y sin que él le hubiera revelado que estaba llorando de amor, ella reconoció de inmediato el llanto más antiguo de la historia del hombre.
Y la miró por última vez para siempre jamás con los ojos más luminosos, más tristes y más agradecidos que ella no le vio nunca en medio siglo de vida en común, y alcanzó a decirle con el último alient...
With every six heads sixty enemies are produced and for every sixty six hundred are produced and then six thousand and then six million, the whole country, God damn it, we’ll never end,
They scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets
The sunken ships were visible even on the bottom, for it seemed as if they had sunk along with their own space and time, so that they were still illumined by the same eleven o’clock sun that was shini...
Tedio de mis horas libres encontró remedio por una razón del corazón: el que no canta no puede imaginarse lo que es el placer de cantar.
Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they had happened.
You know better than I, he said, that all courts-martial are farces and that you're really paying for the crimes ofother people, because this time we're going to win the war at any price. Wouldn't you...
What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too.
Vio en los párpados del marido el destello de una lágrima, y un temblor le subió de las entrañas. Esta vez no era la muerte sino la certidumbre ineludible de lo que tarde o temprano tenía que suceder....
Un pájaro extraviado apareció en el patio y estuvo como media hora dando saltitos de inválido por entre los nardos. Cantó una nota progresiva, subiendo cada vez una octava, hasta cuando se hizo tan ag...
Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts. It was there that the sleight-of-hand lawyers proved...
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not t...
Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar...
Then she revived him with an ardor and skill he could not have imagined in the meager pleasures of his solitary lovemaking, and without glory deprived him of his virginity. He was fifty-two years old...
The surprise lay in the third niche of the high altar, on the side where the Gospels were kept. The stone shattered at the first blow of the pickax, and a stream of living hair the intense color of co...
The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live
The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories