Melquiades

"Everything written on these parchments was foreordained."

"We are not destined to repeat the mistakes of our past but to understand them"

"The greatest curse is to know too much about the future"

"In the end, all stories are the same story told different ways"

"The future is already written."

"Fate does not allow those who dare to challenge it to rest."

"Time moves in cycles. What has been will be again."

"The dead do not disappear; they merely change form."

"The future is written in the past."

"Everything ends, but nothing truly disappears."

"The only way to live in this world is to accept its strangeness."

"The beauty of magic is that it requires no explanation, only acceptance."

"Time is a circle, not a line—we return eternally to our beginnings."

"Names are destiny; once spoken, they cannot be unspoken."

"Knowledge without wisdom is a burden, not a gift."

"Every ending contains within it the seeds of a new beginning."

"Magic is merely the world's true nature revealed."

"The world is magical, and you are the magician."

"Wherever they go, whatever they do, they will carry Macondo within them."

"One must not aspire to possess the whole truth in this world."

"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"Things have a life of their own. The only thing to do is wake up to that fact."

"The mysteries of existence are not solved by reasoning, but by living."

"Time is a spiral, not a circle."

"Everything is known about the future"

"The fact is we are cursed to one hundred years of solitude"

"Everything written is irrevocable and repetitive"