“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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