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Widow Nazaret is the first woman with whom Florentino Ariza has a consensual sexual relationship. After the war destroys her house, Widow Nazaret takes refuge at Florentino and Tránsito Ariza’s home. Although she frequently expresses grief for her husband’s death, she also realizes that his death allows her to develop a sexual life of her own, focused on her pleasure. She takes pride in having become “a whore” thanks to Florentino, and thus embodying the romantic and sexual freedom that women can achieve outside of marriage. The two of them develop a relationship over the next few years and, although they never claim to love each other, she is full of tenderness toward him. She is also the only lover for whom Florentino feels a sense of responsibility. He pays for her funeral after her death.
Widow Nazaret Quotes in Love in the Time of Cholera
The Love in the Time of Cholera quotes below are all either spoken by Widow Nazaret or refer to Widow Nazaret. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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In this way he learned that she did not want to marry him, but did feel joined to his life because of her immense gratitude to him for having corrupted her. She often said to him:
“I adore you because you made me a whore.”
Said in another way, she was right. Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginity or the abstinence of widowhood. He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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Widow Nazaret Quotes in Love in the Time of Cholera
The Love in the Time of Cholera quotes below are all either spoken by Widow Nazaret or refer to Widow Nazaret. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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In this way he learned that she did not want to marry him, but did feel joined to his life because of her immense gratitude to him for having corrupted her. She often said to him:
“I adore you because you made me a whore.”
Said in another way, she was right. Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginity or the abstinence of widowhood. He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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