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Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García MárquezOriginal title El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Spanish, 1985)

Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

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“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

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Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”

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“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

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

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“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

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“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”

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“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”

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“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

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“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

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“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.”

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

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“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

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“This soup tastes like windows”

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“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

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“How strange women are.”

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“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

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“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

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“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”

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“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

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