The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.
Stichwörter: forgiveness literary-quotes
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: inspirational man help marquez
Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: “I did not know that fellow was a poet.” And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness.
Gabriel García MárquezTired of his lack of understanding, she asked him for an unusual birthday gift: that for one day he would take care of the domestic chores. He accepted in amusement, and indeed took charge of the house at dawn. He served a splendid breakfast, but he forgot that fried eggs did not agree with her and that she did not drink café con leche. Then he ordered a birthday luncheon for eight guests and gave instructions for tidying the house, and he tried so hard to manage better than she did that before noon he had to capitulate without a trace of embarrassment. From the first moment he realized he did not have the slightest idea where anything was, above all in the kitchen, and the servants let him upset everything to find each item, for they were playing the game too. At ten o’clock no decisions had been made regarding lunch because the housecleaning was not finished yet, the bedroom was not straightened, the bathroom was not scrubbed; he forgot to replace the toilet paper, change the sheets, and send the coachmen for the children, and he confused the servants’ duties: he told the cook to make the beds and set the chambermaids to cooking. At eleven o’clock, when the guests were about to arrive, the chaos in the house was such that Fermina Daza resumed command, laughing out loud, not with the triumphant attitude she would have liked but shaken instead with compassion for the domestic helplessness of her husband. He was bitter and offered the argument he always used: “Things did not go as badly for me as they would for you if you tried to cure the sick.” But it was a useful lesson, and not for him alone. Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: love conjugal-life
On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the entrance, and on the wet envelope he recognized at once the imperious handwriting that so many changes in life had not changed, and he even thought he could detect the nocturnal perfume of withered gardenias, because after the initial shock, his heart told him everything: it was the letter he had been waiting for, without a moment’s respite, for over half a century.
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: pinnacle-of-hope
...so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: one-hundred-years-of-solitude
Невесел, мълчалив, безчувствен за новия полъх на жизнелюбие, разтърсващ къщата, полковник Аурелиано Буендия едва-едва проумя, че тайната на добрата старост не е нищо друго, освен почтен договор със самотата.
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: Сто-години-самота
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La vida no es la vida que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo recuerda para contarla
Gabriel García Márquezy el gozo que le produjo esa mujer, le había permitido entender por que los hombres tenían miedo a la muerte"
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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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