“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.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“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
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