“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”

—  Gabriel García Márquez, book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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