The best friend a person has, he would say at that time, is one who has just died.
The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel’s place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God’s mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of...
That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, and partly because he was always too absorbed in his fan...
That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it in any other way: sorrows, griefs, uncertainties in the solitude of an immense house.
Sólo ahora, cuando ya pasé por todas las edades que mi padre tuvo en su larga vida, he empezado a verme en el espejo mucho más parecido a él que a mí mismo.
Suddenly she sighed: It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not. By the time she fi...
Sin embargo, antes de llegar al verso final ya había comprendido que no saldría jamás de ese cuarto, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos ( o los espejismos) sería arrasada por el viento...
Siempre había escogido al azar las novias de una noche más por el precio que por los encantos, y hacíamos amores sin amor, medio vestidos las más de las veces y siempre en la oscuridad para imaginarno...
She led him by the hand to the bed as if he were a blind beggar on the street, and she cut him into pieces with malicious tenderness; she added salt to taste, pepper, a clove of garlic, chopped onion,...
She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.
Science has eliminated distance, Melquíades proclaimed. In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house.
Pero poco a poco lo fue abandonando a su soledad,
Os filhos não são queridos por serem filhos e sim pela amizade que surge quando os criamos.
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's...
No era comprensible que una mujer con aquel espíritu hubiera regresado a un pueblo muerto, deprimido por el polvo y el calor,
Lo único cierto era que se llevaron todo: el dinero, las brisas de diciembre, el cuchillo del pan, el trueno de las tres de la tarde, el aroma de los jazmines, el amor.
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...
Ladies and gentlemen, the captain said in a low voice that was slow and a little tired. you have five minutes to withdraw.The redoubled hooting and shouting drowned out the bugle call that announced t...
La nostalgia, como siempre, había borrado los malos recuerdos y magnificado los buenos.