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" he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. "
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). copy citation
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Translated by Edith Grossman
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"Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?" F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity." Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
"She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will." Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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"he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love." Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
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