Sublime

But despite the illness, Bolbol hadn’t believed his father would really die. It wasn’t credible that anyone could still die of natural causes in this day and age. Even his neighbor Um Elias had been murdered, though she was in her eighties. A young relative and his friends conspired to break into her house and force open her strongbox, which everyo

the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

poet Pablo Neruda,

The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the habits of the birds.

La felicidad consiste en dar pasos hacia uno mismo y mirar lo que se es.

He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself.

Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Ahora que el Amado está ausente, es fácil proyectar la perfección en la relación pasada, como un huérfano que intenta imaginar a sus padres ausentes como reyes.

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