“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
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“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Love: Ten Poems
― Love: Ten Poems
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