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everything appears possible to the condemned man, to whom a miracle becomes an everyday occurrence when it is a question of saving his life.
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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