Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Gabriel García Márquez
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

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And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

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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.

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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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His examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

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And realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

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

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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

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When he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia.

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

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It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: Only God knows how much I loved you

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

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Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

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Opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.

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