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  1. At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution. 'The farce is over, old friend,' he said to…
  2. 'Shit!' she shouted. Amaranta, who was starting to put the clothes into the trunk, thought that she had been bitten by a scorpion. 'Where i…
  3. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. He was bothered by the people who cheered him in neighboring village…
  4. The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. (p. 269)
  5. Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves over Pilar Ternera's …
  6. The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. (p. 279)
  7. He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject on…
  8. 'One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.' (p. 282)

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