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  1. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    «¡No me asuste, general!» «No se asuste usted», dijo el general en un tono tranquilo. «Váyase para México, aunque lo maten o aunque se muera. Y váyase ahora que todavía es joven, porque un día será demasiado tarde, y entonces no se sentirá ni de aquí ni de allá. Se sentirá forastero en todas partes, y eso es peor que estar muerto». Lo miró directo a los ojos, se puso la mano abierta en el pecho, y concluyó: «Dígamelo a mí».
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  2. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    Something that concerned the officers of the entourage, which they hid from the General in order not to complete his mortification, was that the hussars and grenadiers of the guard were sowing the fiery seed of an immortal gonorrhea.
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  3. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    وجده خوسيه بالاثيوس, أقدم الخدم لديه, طافيًا في مياه حوض الحمام المُطهرة, عاريًا ومفتوح العينين, فظن أنه قد غرق.
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  4. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power.
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  5. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    ... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness."Damn it," he sighed. "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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  6. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all."
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  7. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.
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  8. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    Then he crossed his arms over his chest and began to listen to the radiant voices of the slaves singing the six o'clock Salve in the mills, and through the window he saw the diamond of Venus in the sky that was dying forever, the eternal snows, the new vine whose yellow bellflowers he would not see bloom on the following Saturday in the house closed in mourning, the final brilliance of life that would never, through all eternity, be repeated again.
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  9. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    Someone had told the General that when a dog died it had to be replaced without delay by another just like it, and with the same name, so you could go on believing it was the same animal. He did not agree. He always wanted them to be distinctive so he could remember them all with their own identities, their yearning eyes and eager spirits, and could mourn their deaths.
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  10. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned."
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  11. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    {F}or fate granted him the immense good fortune of losing his memory."
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  12. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ The General in His Labyrinth

    I go to seek a great perhaps
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