One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. - Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
"One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
"He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you"