“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”

Variant: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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