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 heard a shout on the horizon, the sobs of someone who perhaps had died a century earlier in the room.
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...
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
He was weary of the uncertainty, of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or...
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
Gabito isn't deceiving anyone, she said with an innocent smile, but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long.
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a su...
En la escuela desportillada donde experimentó por primera vez la seguridad del poder, a pocos metros del cuarto donde conoció la incertidumbre del amor, Arcadio encontró ridículo el formalismo de la m...
Ella tuvo que hacer un esfuerzo sobrenatural para no morirse cuando una potencia ciclónica asombrosamente regulada la levantó por la cintura y la despojó de su intimidad con tres zarpazos, y la descua...
El problema del matrimonio es que se acaba todas las noches después de hacer el amor, y hay que volver a reconstruirlo todas las mañanas antes del desayuno.
De az aggság áthatolhatatlan magányában olyan éleslátással tudta mérlegelni a család életének legjelentéktelenebb eseményeit is, hogy csak most tárult fel előtte tisztán sok igazság, amit hajdan a nag...
Cuando éste los vio aparecer, como en otro tiempo llegaban a empantanar la guerra, no pudo soportar el cinismo de sus panegíricos. Les ordenó que lo dejaran en paz, insistió que él no era un prócer de...
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
Con la temeridad atroz con que José Arcadio Buendía atravezó la sierra para fundar Macondo, con el orgullo ciego con que el coronel Aureliano Buendía promovió sus guerras inútiles, con la tenacidad in...
Cinco minutos después, volando sobre la nieve rosada de los Andes al atardecer, tomé conciencia de que las seis semanas que dejaba detrás no eran las más heroicas de mi vida, como lo prentendía al lle...
Aureliano, por su parte, encontró en ella la justificación que le hacía falta para vivir.
Aquella noche interminable, mientras el coronel Gerineldo Márquez evocaba sus tardes muertas en el costurero de Amaranta, el coronel Aureliano Buendía rasguñó durante muchas horas, tratando de romperl...
And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.