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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."

"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."

"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."

"If... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity."

"People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting."

"A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form."
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"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

"She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written."

"When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?"

"Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed."

"At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death."

"Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves."

"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before."

"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."
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