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"We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about."
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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?"

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"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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