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  1. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of so many cows, pigs and chickens for the endless parties that the ground in the courtyard turned black and muddy with so much blood. It was an eternal execution of bones and innards, a mud pit of leftovers, and they had to keep exploding dynamite bombs all the time so that the buzzards would not pluck out the guests' eyes.
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  2. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    We have to bring in the railroad,' he said.That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo. Looking at the sketch that Aureliano Triste drew on the table and that was a direct descendant of the plans that Jose Arcadio Buendia had illustrated his project for solar warfare, Ursula confirmed her impression that time was going in a circle.
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  3. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, when Santa Sofia de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches. She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled her to death.
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  4. Laura Esquivel _ Like Water for Chocolate

    Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.
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  5. Laura Esquivel _ Like Water for Chocolate

    The simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person's point of view.
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