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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”
“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”
“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”
“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”
“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.”
“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .”
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Book Keywords:
lust, love, spirit, aging, virginity, ageing