Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"The laboratory was his only refuge."

"Life repeats itself in cycles that are almost identical."

"He had spent his fortune on hopeless wars."

"Solitude was the only honest inheritance of the Buendías."

"It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between doubt and revelation"

"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude"

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point"

"She had discovered that it was impossible to love the same person twice"

"Humans are creatures of habit, and we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes"

"Melancholy was congenital in their line, transmitted from generation to generation like an inheritance of clothes"

"She understood that the search for truth had left her mind worn out"

"The war had only produced an inveterate habit of failure and a deathly weariness in his bones"

"Wherever men have left their footprints in the struggle for freedom, there is found a sort of sacred ground"

"She had become so familiar with solitude that it had become invisible to her"

"Time advances in one direction only, and we advance with it like corpses floating downstream"

"The purpose of a character is not to be likable, but to be interesting"

"In the town, there was a failure of the spirit and an air of unreality"

"Love was a domestic plant that needed constant tending or it would wither and die"

"Beauty is a terrible and frightful thing that we find difficult to comprehend"

"Her capacity for love was as boundless as her capacity for suffering"

"The real tragedy is not that we make mistakes but that we never learn from them"

"Innocence is a luxury that few people can afford in this world"

"We are all condemned to solitude from birth until death"

"In every generation, there is one who seeks to break the cycle"

"Love without understanding is nothing more than a beautiful illusion"

"Every person carries within them a small universe that no one else can access"

"We are all architects of our own destruction"

"Freedom is a burden that few are capable of carrying"

"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."

"It was as if God had decided to test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."