Love in the Time of Cholera has been hailed as "the greatest romance novel ever written by mankind." This epic of love, spanning more than half a century, exhausts all possibilities of love: loyal, secret, rough, shy, platonic, debauched, fleeting, life and death...
Márquez once said: "This one is my best work, it is my creation from the heart." ”
A classic excerpt from Love in the Time of Cholera
▌"I travel because I decided to go, not because I'm interested in the landscape. ”
When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall that she can't jump over, no fortress she can't push down, no moral concern that she can't let go, and in fact there is no God who can control her. Make such a decision with caution.
▌ He is still too young to know that memories will always erase bad and exaggerate the good, and it is precisely because of this mystery that we can bear the burden of the past.
She reminded him that the weak could never enter the kingdom of love, because it was a harsh, miserly country, and women would only submit to strong-willed men. Because only such men can give them a sense of security, and they crave this sense of security to face the challenges of life.
▌ Worldly benefits: security, harmony and happiness, these things, once added together, may seem to love, but also almost equal to love. But they are not love after all. Use a sponge without tears to erase the memory of her completely, allowing her to grow a poppy in the space occupied by his memory.
▌ The regularity of life is as if it is rusty, which is both contemptuous and frightening, but at the same time a kind of protection, so that he is not aware of the passage of time.
▌ Take advantage of this opportunity to try your best to taste all the pain, this kind of thing is not something that will happen at any time in your life.
▌ What does true love need? Needing two people together is easy and happy, no stress.
▌ Man does not come out of the womb and remain unchanged, on the contrary, life will force him to be reborn again and again.
▌ The love of the heart is above the waist, and the love of the flesh is down the waist.
▌ You must always remember that for a loving couple, the most important thing is not happiness, but stability.
▌ Women of any age have irreproductive beauty that she presents at that age. What she has lost because of her age, she has made up for it because of her character, and she has won more because of hard work.
▌ Easy-to-attain happiness cannot last, and this experience comes more from lessons than experiences.
▌ Honest lifestyle is actually to act according to the will of your body, eat when you are hungry, and do not lie when you love.
▌ They live in two opposite worlds. Whenever he tried his best to narrow the distance between them, she was always walking in the opposite direction.
▌ After all, love is an instinct, either the first time or not for a lifetime.
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He was so close to her that he could even hear her every breath and smell the sweet fragrance emanating from her body, and for the rest of his life, he relied on it to identify her.
▌ When a man's appearance becomes similar to his father's, he begins to age.
▌ The time of old age is not a horizontal torrent, but a bottomless underground reservoir, from which memory is drained.
▌ He was satisfied just by seeing the girl. Gradually, he idealized her, placing some impossible virtues and imagined emotions on her.
▌ Fermina, I have been waiting for this opportunity, it has been 51 years, 9 months and 4 days, during this time, I have always loved you, from the first time I saw you, until now, I expressed my vow to you for the first time, I will always love you, loyal.
▌ Compared with the great disasters in marriage, the daily trivial troubles are more difficult to avoid.
Children become relatives not because they are children, but because they love and nurture.
They didn't get married when they were twenty because they were too young, and by the time they were eighty, they still couldn't get married because they were too old.
▌ No one should try to be a teacher of life.
▌ Only those who are not principled will be satisfied from suffering.
▌ "Please commemorate me with a rose." ”
When the path to ideals is denied, we begin to wonder if our ancestors had ideals and passions. Within the scope of their understanding, your ideal is childish and ridiculous, as long as people live, what is the use of your ideal? And do you think that if there is no expectation, no fantasy about the future, what is the use of living?
The two sides will never be able to reach an agreement. They do the same thing day after day, can't accept your whimsy, and ask you to live according to their wishes: after college, get a job, get married and have children, raise children, watch him get married or marry, hold grandchildren, so that your mission is over and you can rest in peace. It doesn't matter what job you find, as long as you can earn money to support yourself; it doesn't matter who you marry. You have to have a good mindset and no bad habits. Of course you have to be fertile. "What you want to do" is trivial, "what you should do" is orthodox.
Lonely people are miserable, and loneliness is always there. The novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" expresses the struggle against the fate of loneliness through Márquez's writing style, and at the same time is full of the desire to get rid of loneliness, to seek and explore freedom in an ideal world that is not lonely.
Márquez describes the history of the Boondia family in the Caribbean coastal town of Magnondeau from prosperity to decline until eventual demise. Through such a description, he pointed out a clear path for the entire Latin American people, telling them how to get rid of the backward status quo and let everyone seek a new direction of development together.
The novel was inspired a lot and had a huge impact on Latin America as a whole at the time. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" uses magic colors and realism techniques to vividly express the loneliness and confusion in the novel.
This work shows not only the thrilling mystery and the mysterious weirdness, but also the inner soul of the characters, the mental state of the members of the Buendia family, and their presentation of loneliness.
There will be no unified answer to Márquez's interpretation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", as Zweig said, the human heart is a mysterious and complex dark world. Moreover, a hundred years of loneliness is not only to write about the loneliness of one person, but to write about the loneliness of the entire human race, after reading this "One Hundred Years of Loneliness", what gives us the deepest feeling is those absurd reciprocations, and the ultimate nothingness.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is an interesting book, it has no grand plot, and the development of the story is even more puzzling. It is a masterpiece of Latin American magic realism literature and one of the most important classic literary masterpieces of the 20th century. It has been hailed as "a monumental work that reproduces the historical and social picture of Latin America".
Such a famous book, parents can read, children can also read. As many netizens said, if you can only read one book in this lifetime, then I choose "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
If you want to understand the reality of loneliness first-hand, you may wish to check out "One Hundred Years of Solitude". "Love in the Time of Cholera" is also among them