“Pero si algo habían aprendido juntos era que la sabiduría nos llega cuando ya no sirve para nada.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
“Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
“...Un presidente liberal no le parecía ni más ni menos que un presidente conservador, sólo que peor vestido.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
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