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Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 153
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Gabriel García MárquezOriginal title Cien años de soledad (Spanish, 1967)
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.
“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
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“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
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Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 1
“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
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“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”
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Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 279, referring to Amaranta
“There is always something left to love.”
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“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”
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“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”
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Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
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“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”
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