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The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

The only regret I have in dying is if it is not for love.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

...but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched by hand.

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

They scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets

She would go to sleep only once and that would be to die.

It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical woman.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

America is half a world gone mad.

It was an absurd journey.

Science has eliminated distance.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.

The words I am about to express:
They now have their own crowned goddess.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

The pursuit of love is like falconry.- chronicle of death foretold

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door.

If you don't fear God, fear him through the metals.

Thanks to the unwanted privilege of being the oldest employee.

And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Only God knows how much I love you.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness.

The city drowned in memories.

One ages more and with more intensity in pictures than in reality.

They had to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy.

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.

I adore you because you made me a whore.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

government guarantees on its word of honor

I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned.

They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.

The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

...he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon

There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met.

What did you expect?" he murmured. "Time passes.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people ...

She belived that whatever happened to one love affected other loves throught the world .

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons

But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. For

Music is important for one's health.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice,

chicken on the grill

In the end all books are written for your friends.

Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.

I caught the smell of a warm woman and I saw the eyes of an insomniac leopard in the darkness ...

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Love if it existed
was something separate: another life.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things ...

Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Fatality makes us invisible.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

The eternal loves of the high seas ended when the port came in sight.

Children inherit their parents' madness.

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.

The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors.

And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

It is life, more than death, which has no limits

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

Reading had become his insatiable vice.

Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine.

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

The day when shit becomes worth something, the poor will be born without asses.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose.

But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.

The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live

fear of death is the amber of happiness

He would say: "You treat me as if I were just anybody." She would roar with the laughter of a free female and say: "Not at all: as if you were nobody.

He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

He dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips ... her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.