Love in the Time of Cholera

desire

• that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later

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• Florentino Ariza began his secret life as a solitary hunter… pretending to read a book of verse… until he saw the impossible maiden walk by

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• the decisiveness of her message shook him to his very marrow… his intestines suddenly filled in an explosion of painful foam

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grief

• 'Remember me with a rose,' he said to her. She lay down fully dressed on her bed, to smoke one cigarette after another and give him time to finish the long and difficult letter

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mortality

• everyone knew that the time of cholera had not ended despite all the joyful statistics from the health officials

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• fleeing the invisible cholera, fleeing the larval wars that governments were bent on hiding with distracted decrees

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