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- Gabriel García Márquez
- 1985
- “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
- “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 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.”
- “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
Suddenly she sighed: “It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”. Related Characters: Fermina Daza (speaker), Dr. Juvenal Urbino de la Calle. Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 329.
Apr 1, 2024 · Quotes from Love in the Time of Cholera. 1. “IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” (pg. 1. The first sentence of the book) 2. “Although the air coming through the window had purified the atmosphere, there still remained for the one who could identify it the dying embers of ...
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Important Quotes Explained. [Lorenzo Daza] . . . lowered his voice. "Don't force me to shoot you," he said. Florentino felt his intestines filling with cold froth. But his voice did not tremble because he felt himself illuminated by the Holy Spirit. "Shoot me," he said, with his hand on his chest. "There is no greater glory than to die for love."
Important Quotes. “Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”. (Section 1, Page 8) This passage appears early in the novel, revealing Urbino’s philosophy on death and his approach to caring for people at the end of their lives from the perspective of a medical ...
Sep 25, 2020 · Analysis of Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 25, 2020 • ( 0). Carlos R. Rodr ́ıguez, a friend of Garcıa Marquez (1927-2014) and well-known literary critic, wrote that if One Hundred Years of Solitude had not secured the road to Stockholm for Garcıa Marquez to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, Love in the Time of Cholera would have done so.
The Enduring Power of Love. [Lorenzo Daza] . . . lowered his voice. “Don’t force me to shoot you,” he said. Florentino felt his intestines filling with cold froth. But his voice did not tremble because he felt himself illuminated by the Holy Spirit. “Shoot me,” he said, with his hand on his chest. “There is no greater glory than to ...
