“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
― 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
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. ”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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