“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
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Gabriel García MárquezOriginal title Memoria de mis putas tristes (Spanish, 2004)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
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Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
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“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
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“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
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“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”
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Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
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“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”
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“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
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“Morality, too, is a question of time.”
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“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
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“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
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“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
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“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
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