Love in the Time of Cholera
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- ID: 63
- Added: 2025-08-30
- Updated: 2025-08-30
- Reviews: 3
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Pull quotes
- Florentino, now elderly, abruptly ends his affair and professes his 'eternal fidelity and everlasting love' to Fermina.
- The unhappy but stable marriage is rocked when Dr. Urbino conducts a four-month affair.
- Florentino orders the Captain to raise the yellow flag of cholera, which he does, and they are forever exiled to cruise the river.
Pull quotes
- They appreciate the quality of a love separate from marital difficulties and societal obligations.
- Love that is rendered all the more intense by its proximity to death.
- Florentino is convinced of his love and, after many months of waiting, succeeds in handing her a declaration of love through her aunt and guardian.
Pull quotes
- It is Love that saves all in the end - at least we are left to imagine that possibility.
- Life has been reborn in the Second Coming of Love!
- The capacity for illusion is magic enough to save the world, and our souls.