"Tell him yes, she said. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no."
"With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash on anger: my heart has more rooms than a whorehouse."
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
"The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going? he asked.
Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights.
Forever, he said."
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