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- a textbook of didactic clarity and compelling persuasiveness.
- gloomy radiation.
- all were determined to die of old age.
- angelic arousal.
- fundamental humanitarian feeling.
- he felt forgotten, not with the reparable forgetfulness of the heart but with the hard and irrevocable forgetfulness, which he knew very well because it was the forgetfulness of death.
- his dedication to work and his good judgment, when adjusting his interests, made him earn more money.
- had defeated the devil in a duel.
- recital of dignity, personal charm and good manners.
- had been hardened by the thanklessness of his profession.
- it was a (like) whirlwind of health.
- relentless determination.
- had been banished to the attic of her memory.
- his radiant self-control.
- looked like a miscarriage next to him.
- he had well understood that the secret to a good old age was nothing more than an honest deal with solitude.
- they realized that the smell of the beautiful Remedios continued to torment men beyond death, until their bones turned to dust
- was a mark of caste, a stamp of immunity.
- she saw the inconsolable eyes that sealed her heart like red-hot coals of compassion.
- unable to give an answer that was not a masterpiece of simplicity
- where even the loftiest birds of memory could not reach her.
- there was an unbearable smell of rotten memories.
- the corrosive war of eternal postponements.
- sank into the miserable defeat of old age.
- rigid discipline.
- he was straight, serious and had a thoughtful tone, a Saracen sadness, he had a mournful autumn-colored glow on his face.
- she was so clouded with resentment.
- he thought his boldness was industriousness, his greed self-denial and his stubbornness perseverance.
- she had discovered within her a thoughtful and righteous rage.
- time tripped and had accidents and could break into pieces and leave an eternal piece of itself in a room.
- Her heart, full of collected ashes, which had withstood the strongest blows of daily reality, was torn to pieces by the first attack of nostalgia.
- his wife's decision came from a nostalgic delusion.
- and the inhabitants, oppressed by memories.
- for a man like him, imprisoned in written reality.
- her will to resist was shattered by overwhelming impatience.
- his mania for the written word was a mixture of true respect and gossipy irreverence. not even his own manuscripts were spared from this dualism.
- boredom in love had unexplored possibilities, richer than lust.
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Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009-05-30))