“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

— Gabriel García Márquez , book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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