"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 alternation between doubt and revelation, doubt and revelation, until they should forget what it was like to be astonished in either direction."
"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 alternation between doubt and revelation."
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
"She had discovered that it was impossible to love the same person twice."