Ese momento era hermoso, pero duraría apenas unos días y pronto las flores caerían como lluvia sobre la tierra; mejor sería el recuerdo del cerezo en flor, porque duraría todo el año, hasta la primave...
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A memória é frágil e o trânsito de uma vida é muito breve e sucede tudo tão depressa que não conseguimos ver a relação entre os acontecimentos na ficção do tempo, no presente, no passado e no futuro (...
What’s the worst thing about growing old? she would ask them. They never thought about their age, was a common reply; they had once been adolescents, then they were thirty, fifty, sixty, and never gav...
Unchiul Ramon nu mi-a inspirat nici un personaj din cartile mele, e mult prea decent si are mult prea mult bun simt. Romanele se fac cu nebuni si ticalosi, cu oameni chinuiti de obsesii, cu victime al...
Una fábula bien contada suele tener un poderoso efecto afrodisiaco.
Two-thirds of those evacuated at that time had been born in the United States and were American citizens. Standing in long lines, the Japanese had to wait for hours in front of the desks of the offici...
Todo tiembla bajo nuestros pies, no conocemos seguridades, si nos preguntan cómo estamos, la respuesta es «sin novedad» o «más o menos»; nos movemos de una incertidumbre a otra, caminamos cautelosos e...
The simple recipe for success that Mendel had instilled in his children from the cradle on consisted in never complaining, never asking for anything, striving to be the best in everything you do, and...
The property adjoined the bay, and when the tide came in it was possible to go kayaking, which some of the residents not yet disabled by their infirmities were happy to do. This is how I would like to...
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, o...
The lack of a father leaves a hole in a woman’s heart, Lucia. A girl needs to feel she is protected; she needs masculine energy to develop trust in men and later to be able to give herself in love.
The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and transl...
The girl you were died; the potion of death was what all of us women swallow sooner or later. Have you noticed how at puberty the Amazon-like energy we are born with fades and we turn into doubt-fille...
The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world, she eventually told Irina. They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn’t care less about other people’s opinion. You’ll never g...
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found...
Tenía la idea de que al poner nombre a los problemas, estos se materializan y ya no es posible ignorarlos; en cambio, si se mantienen en el limbo de las palabras no dichas, pueden desaparecer solos, c...
So it is with my life, a multilayered and ever-changing fresco that only I can decipher, whose secret is mine alone. The mind selects, enhances, and betrays; happenings fade from memory; people forget...
Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or wh...
She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked...