Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.
He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the t...
Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
He’s a woman! he shouted, horrified.Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior.It’s going to be much more diffic...
His adult teeth were still emerging, and when he smiled his eyes seemed to disappear.
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting th...
His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and the husband fate had dealt her
How would I run with my bad leg? And what would become of the people who need my care? Besides, it doesn't mean anything for me to be free and everyone else slaves, the healer answered. Tete hadn't th...
I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.
I realized that she had simply fulfilled her mission in this life and that she had escaped another dimension where her spirit, finally free of its material burden, would be more at home
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the...
I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don’t have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of the...
I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
If women have influence, it is only—and then only sometimes—within their home. Men control all the political and economic power, the culture and customs; they proclaim the laws and apply them as they...
Inchi ochii si vad imaginea dureroasa a fiica-mii in scaunul cu rotile, privind fix spre mare, dincolo de orizont, acolo unde incepe moartea.
Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder...
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