Love in the Time of Cholera
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First English-language edition, 1988First publication
1985
Literary form
Novel
Genres
Literary
Writing language
Spanish
Author's country
Colombia
Length
Approx. 145,000 words
Notable lines
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
— First line
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.
She had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
Like the countless other women...she accepted him for what he really was: a man passing through.
"And how long do you think we can keep up this goddam coming and going?" he asked.
Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three ears, seven months, and eleven days and nights.
"Forever," he said.
— Last lines
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