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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.

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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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“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

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“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

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“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

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Variant: It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

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

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“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

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“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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“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”

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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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“Only God knows how much I love you.”

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

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