Un veac de siguratate, Gabriel Garcia MarquezO singură clipă de împăcare este mai de preţ decât o viaţă întreagă de prietenie.Nu intelegea de ce i-au trebuit atatea cuvinte pentru a-i explica ce simti...
Un soir, en sortant d'un cinéma, je fus arrêté dans la rue par des policiers qui me crachèrent au visage et me firent monter sous les coups dans un fourgon blindé. Il était rempli d'Algériens taciturn...
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
The act was an exorcism of relieffor Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walkeddown the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he wasleaving the next...
Se había cansado de esperar al hombre que se quedó, a los hombres que se fueron, a los incontables hombres que erraron el camino de su casa confundidos por la incertidumbre de las barajas.
No había enflaquecido, pero en su rostro se advertía no ya el gesto militar y altanero del primer año, sino la expresión abúlica y fatigada del hombre que no sabe qué será de su vida un minuto después...
Nada se parece tanto a una persona como la forma de su muerte.
My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad...
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea...
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember thei...
Las muchachas, en sus relaciones con los hombres, tienen las mismas vueltas, los mismos prejuicios, los mismos recovecos psicológicos que son proverbiales en las españolas. Se comprende a simple vista...
La soledad le había seleccionado los recuerdos, y había incinerado los entorpecedores montones de basura nostálgica que la vida había acumulado en su corazón, y había purificado, magnificado y eterniz...
La fama es una señora muy gorda que no duerme con uno, pero cuando uno despierta está siempre mirándonos frente a la cama.
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house whe...
I remembered that she had also looked at me in that way in the past, from that remote dream where I made the chair spin on its back legs and remained facing a strange woman with ashen eyes. It was in...
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Geri...
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
El motivo principal de esa guerra era el terror de los narcotraficantes ante la posibilidad de ser extraditados a los Estados Unidos,