Sublime

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.

It was a thick night, starless, but the darkness was becoming impregnated with a fresh and clear air.

Soy la hija del doctor Arturo Borrero Lamas y la mujer del doctor Efrén García Ardiles, dos amigos del Presidente.

“You know,” complained Espinoza in his conversations with Pelletier, perhaps seeking some consolation, “we Spaniards have always been provincials.”

Gradually, Lina had come back to the way she’d been before Sacha; life was life, roving, wavelike, with the same quantities of pleasure, discomfort, sorrow, and excitement. Peace at the end of longing. The time with him, she’d thought she was happy. But along with that jolt of victory—he chose me—she’d felt a constant anxiety: Would she be able to

When I was twenty, Michele and the children already existed, even before I met him and they were born. They were my fate, even more than my calling. I had only to trust, to obey. If I think about it, that seems to me the cause of Mirella’s restlessness: the possibility of not obeying. That’s what has changed everything, between fathers and children

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Mi papá, con el inevitable sedimento machista de su educación, no quería que mi mamá se pusiera a trabajar, ni que adquiriera la independencia física y mental que da ganarse la propia plata, pero ella logró imponer su voluntad, con ese carácter firme y constante, mezclado con una indestructible alegría de fondo que no ha dejado nunca de acompañarla

Todas las bibliotecas públicas y algunas particulares, como la suya, habían sido purgadas de manuales marxistas, libros anticatólicos y pornográficos (a él le habían decomisado todas sus novelas en francés, por si acaso), además de poemas de Rubén Darío y las historias de Miguel Ángel Asturias y de Vargas Vila.