“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“[O]ne can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery.”
― The Vampyre
― The Vampyre
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