I leave you over 80 Sentences of Love in the Time of Cholera (In order of appearance), novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1985.
The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, who fall in love in their youth. A secret relationship blossoms between the two with the help of Aunt Fermina.
They exchange several love letters. However, once Fermina's father, Lorenzo Daza, learns of the relationship, he forces his daughter to stop seeing Florentino immediately.
When she refuses, father and daughter move with the family of their deceased wife to another city. Regardless of distance, Fermina and Florentino continue to communicate by telegraph.
However, upon his return, Fermina realizes that his relationship with Florentino was nothing more than a dream, since they are practically unknown; Breaks his commitment to Florentino and throws all his cards.
When Fermina decides to marry a rich and good family doctor, Florentino was devastated, but he is a romantic. Fermina's husband dies, and Florentino deliberately attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months and four days after he declared his love for Fermina, he will do it again.
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It was inevitable: the smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of annoyed loves.
He found the corpse covered with a blanket on the camp cot where he had always slept, near a stool with the bucket that had served to vaporize the venom.
3 - A police commissioner had gone ahead with a very young medical student doing his forensic practice at the municipal dispensary, and it was they who had ventilated the room and covered the body while Dr. Urbino arrived.
4-I will have time to rest when I die but this eventuality is not yet in my projects.
5-The instructions to the commissary and the practitioner were precise and fast. There was no autopsy.
6-There is going to be missing some crazy man of love that gives him the opportunity one of these days.
7-When you find it, take a good look, he told the practitioner, they have sand in their hearts.
8-Remotes, on the other side of the colonial city, the bells of the cathedral were heard calling to the greater mass.
"If it had been a crime, here would be a good clue,"he told himself. I only know of a man capable of composing this master ambush.
10-It was a half-truth, but they thought it complete because he ordered them to lift a loose tile from the floor and there they found a very used account book where the keys were to open the safe.
11-He got up with the first roosters, and at that time he began to take his secret medicines: potassium bromide to lift his spirits, salicylates for bone pains in rainy weather, drops of ergot for rashes, belladonna for Good sleep.
In spite of her age, she refused to receive patients in the doctor's office, and continued to take care of them at home, as she always did, since the city was so domestic that she could walk anywhere.
13-Though he refused to withdraw, he was aware that he was only being summoned to attend to lost cases, but he considered that this too was a form of specialization.
14-In any case, he used to say in class, the little medicine known only some doctors know.
The mood of the sky had begun to decay very early, and it was cloudy and cool, but there was no risk of rain before noon.
16 In addition, clandestinity shared with a man who was never his completely, and in which more than once they knew the instantaneous explosion of happiness, did not seem to him an undesirable condition. On the contrary: life had shown him that it might be exemplary.
17-"I will never be old." She interpreted it as a heroic purpose to fight against the ravages of time, but he was more explicit: he had the irrevocable determination to take his life at age sixty.
18 And he rejoiced, for he preferred to go on evoking the dead lover as he had asked her the night before, when he interrupted the letter which had already begun, and looked at her for the last time.
19 The fact that the parrot had maintained its privileges after that historic turnout had been the final test of its sacred jurisdiction. No other animal was allowed in the house, except for the earth turtle, which had reappeared in the kitchen after three or four years when it was believed lost forever.
He was of the good, lighter than he looked, and with his yellow head and black tongue, the only way to distinguish him from the mangrove parrots that did not learn to speak or suppositories of turpentine.
21 Another very different thing would have been the life for both of them, of having known in time that it was easier to avoid the great catastrophes matrimonial than the small miseries of each day.
It was a boiler heat, for they had had to close the windows to keep the rain from being bent by the wind.
23-Relieved by one more victory over old age, he abandoned himself to the diaphanous and fluid lyricism of the last piece of the program, which he could not identify.
24-From pure experience, but with no scientific basis, Dr. Juvenal Urbino knew that most of the deadly diseases had their own odor, but none was as specific as that of old age.
25-In any case, the tragedy was a commotion not only among its people, but also affected by contagion the shallow people, who looked out at the streets with the illusion of knowing even if it were the glow of legend.
The night of the death of Dr. Urbino was dressed as the news surprised him, which was as it always was in spite of the infernal heat of June: dark cloth with waistcoat, a ribbon of silk ribbon on the celluloid neck, A felt hat, and an umbrella of black satin that also served as a cane.
27 But she learned that Fermina Daza had been invited to a Saturday ball a few days after her arrival, and that the father had not allowed her to attend with a strict phrase:"Everything will be done in due time."
"Take advantage now that you're young to suffer as much as you can,"he told her,"that these things do not last a lifetime.
29-It was the year of infatuation. Neither of them had life for anything other than thinking of the other, to dream of the other, to wait for letters as anxiously as they answered them. Never in that spring of delirium, nor in the following year, did they have the opportunity to communicate with each other. Moreover, since they first saw him until he reiterated his determination half a century later, they had never had a chance to see themselves alone or talk about their love. But in the first three months not a single day passed without being written, and in a certain time up to twice daily, until Aunt Scholastica was frightened by the voracity of the bonfire she herself had helped ignite.
30-Reading became an insatiable vice. From the time he taught him to read, his mother bought him the illustrated books of the Nordic authors, which were sold as children's stories, but which were actually the cruelest and most perverse that could be read at any age.
31-He tried to seduce her with all kinds of flattery. She tried to make him understand that love at her age was a mirage, tried to convince her to return letters and return to school to ask for forgiveness on her knees, and gave her word of honor that he would be the first to help her To be happy with a worthy suitor. But it was like talking to a dead man.
32-The rest of the day was like a hallucination, in the same house where she had been until yesterday, receiving the same visits that had dismissed her, talking about the same, and dazed by the impression of being living again a piece of life Already lived
He followed her without seeing himself, discovering the daily gestures, the grace, the premature maturity of the being he loved the most in the world and the one he saw for the first time in his natural state.
34 He liked to say that love had been the fruit of a clinical mistake. He himself could not believe that it had happened, and less at that moment of his life, when all his reserves of passion were concentrated in the fate of his city, of which he had said too often and without thinking twice that there was no other like in the world.
35. Cholera became an obsession. He did not know much more of what he had learned on a routine course, and it had seemed implausible to him that only thirty years earlier he had caused in France, even in Paris, more than a hundred and forty thousand dead.
The band made the purity of his lips between the round black beard and the pointed mustaches stand out, and she felt herself shaken by a surge of panic.
37"I knew I was going to get married the next Saturday, in a wedding of rumbling, and the being who loved her the most and would love her forever would not even have the right to die for her.
He took her hand, cold and tight with terror, his fingers interlaced, and in a whisper he began to tell her his memories of other sea voyages.
Thus, between ancores of operas and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible spirit of company made him the leader of the river navigation in its time of greater splendor. It had come out of nowhere, like the two dead brothers, and they all went as far as they wanted despite the stigma of being natural children, and with the auction that they were never recognized.
40-The lighthouse tower was always a fortunate retreat that he evoked with nostalgia when he had everything resolved at the dawn of old age, because it was a good place to be happy, especially at night, and he thought that some of his loves That time came to sailors at every turn of the flashes.
41-It was the mistake of his life, just as his conscience was going to remind him every hour of every day, until the last day.
It was already late: the occasion was with her on the mule tram, she had always been with her in the same chair she was sitting in, but now she was gone forever. The truth was that, after so many subterranean hounds he had done for him, after so much sordidness endured for him, she had gone ahead in life and was well beyond the twenty years of age that he was leading him to advantage: there were Aged for him. He loved him so much that instead of cheating he preferred to continue to love him even though he had to let her know in a brutal way.
43-When he realized that he had begun to love her, she was already in the full forties, and he was going to turn thirty. Her name was Sara Noriega, and she had had a quarter of an hour of celebrity in her youth, for winning a contest with a book of verses on the love of the poor, which was never published.
In the leisure of solitude, however, the widows discovered that the honest way of living was at the mercy of the body, eating only by hunger, loving without lying, sleeping without having to pretend to sleep to escape the indecency of love Official, you finally have the right to a whole bed for them alone in which no one disputed half their sheets, half their air to breathe, half their night, until the body was satisfied to dream of their Dreams of their own, and woke up alone.
"The absurdity of their situation was that they never seemed so happy in public as in those miserable years. For in reality they were the years of their greatest victories over the hostility buried by a medium that was not resigned to admit them as they were: different and novel, and therefore transgressors of the traditional order.
But when he thought he was completely erased from memory, he reappeared where he least expected it to become a ghost of his nostalgia. It was the first auras of old age, when he began to feel that something irreparable had happened in his life whenever he heard thunder before the rain.
47-The truth is that smell did not only serve to wash clothes or to find lost children: it was his sense of orientation in all orders of life, and especially of social life.
"So that the love became impossible when the car became too noticeable at the door, and after three months they were nothing more than ridiculous.
"But I was soon to learn that this excessive determination was not so much the fruit of resentment as of nostalgia. After the honeymoon trip he had returned several times to Europe, despite the ten days of sea, and he had always done it with plenty of time to be happy.
50-That was how he found himself when he least thought of it in the sanctuary of an extinguished love before he was born.
51-Most of the partners took such disputes as matrimonial suits, in which both parties are right.
The persistence of his memory increased his anger. When he woke up thinking of him, the day after the funeral, he managed to remove it from memory with a simple gesture of will. But rage always returned, and he soon realized that the desire to forget it was the strongest stimulus to remember.
"Death has no sense of ridicule,"he said, and added with sorrow,"especially at our age.
"He had the good sense not to expect an immediate answer, since it was enough that the letter was not returned to him. It was not, as none of the following were, and as the days went by their anxiety accelerated, for the more days passed without returns, the more hope of a response increased.
It was a forbidden word: before. She felt the chimerical angel of the past pass by, and tried to elude him.
56-The papers were reversed. Then it was she who tried to give him new courage to see the future, with a phrase that he, in his haste he could not decipher: Let time pass and we will see what it brings.
57. The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.
"They both went to sleep when the music was over, after a long conversation without stumbling in the dark gazebo. There was no moon, the sky was overcast, and on the horizon there were lightning flashes without thunder that illuminated them for a moment.
"It always happened to him the first time, with all of them, always, so that he had learned to live with that ghost: he had had to learn every time again, as if he were the first.
60-Florentino Ariza had the answer prepared for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days with their nights. -Lifetime
61-Soul love from the waist up and body love from the waist down.
And he looked at her for the last time forever, his eyes brighter and sadder and more grateful than she had ever seen him in a half-century of life in common, and she said to him with the last breath,"God alone knows how much I loved you.
He was frightened by the belated suspicion that it is life, rather than death, that it has no limits.
64-At eighty-one years he had enough lucidity to realize that he was trapped in this world by a few wispy rags that could be broken without pain with a simple change of position during sleep, and he did his best to keep them from it. Terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.
65-Wisdom comes to us when it is no good at all.
66-The problem of marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
67-The memory of the heart eliminates the bad memories and magnifies the good, and thanks to that device we manage to cope with the past.
"The only thing that hurts me to die is that it is not love.
"He was still too young to know that the memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones, and thanks to that artifice we manage to cope with the past.
"I will have time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet in my plans.
Death was not just a permanent probability, as it had always been, but an immediate reality.
They were people of slow lives, who were not seen to grow old, nor to be sick or to die, but gradually faded away in their time, becoming memories, mists of another age, until they were forgotten.
The clandestinity shared with a man who was never his completely, and in which more than once they knew the instantaneous explosion of happiness, did not seem to him an undesirable condition.
"The old men, among old men, are less old.
75-Always remember that the most important thing about a good marriage is not happiness but stability.
76-He taught him the only thing he had to learn for love: that no one teaches life.
"But I knew, more from a pain than from experience, that such easy happiness could not last for long.
"I had to teach him to think of love as a state of grace that was not a means to anything, but a source and an end in itself.
79. Love becomes greater and noble in calamity.
80-The people you love should die with all their things.
81-You can be in love with several people at once, and all with the same pain, without betraying any.
82-The fact that someone does not love you as you want does not mean that he does not love you with his whole being.