Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.
 Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). copy citation

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Author Gabriel García Márquez
Source Love in the Time of Cholera
Topic age falling stairs
Date 1985
Language English
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Note Translated by Edith Grossman
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