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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons
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