A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Don't open that door,' she said. 'The hallway is full of difficult dreams.' And I asked her: 'How do you know?' And she told me: 'Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

Merciful God!' sighed the General. 'We've arrived.' And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.