#cholera

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

There is no greater glory than to die for love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Think of love as a state of grace; not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Gli bastò un interrogatorio insidioso, prima a lui e poi alla madre, per constatare un'ennesima volta che i sintomi dell'amore sono gli stessi del colera. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#cholera #sintomi #love

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love-in-the-time-of-cholera #death

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#asked #been #cholera #clear #clearly

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#am #art #benevolent #cholera #emperor

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love-in-the-time-of-cholera #love

Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#love-in-the-time-of-cholera #love