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Fora woman, marriage was a matter of life or death. It was either the hope of “making it work together” or else hitting rock bottom. So one had to be able to recognize the man who would make a woman happy.
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“There is always something left to love.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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