They no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera
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I see better with my hands.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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Dr. Juvenal Urbino: I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.
classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Edith Grossman
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My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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Don Leo XII Loayza: No, I am not rich, but a poor man with money, which is different.
classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Dan Costinaș
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