One Hundred Years of Solitude

Book · 8 characters · 837 quotes · 1967

Quotes from One Hundred Years of Solitude

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"The past always finds a way to haunt the present"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) History
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"Love teaches us that time has no meaning"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"Freedom is just another name for a prison we choose"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Freedom
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"The greatest tragedy is not dying, but being forgotten"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Death
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"In the end, we are all servants of our own loneliness"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Solitude
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"The cycle repeats because we refuse to learn from it"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Wisdom
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"Certainty is more frightening than doubt"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Fear
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"The truth is that life is nothing but a search for identity"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Truth
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"A woman's love is a fortress no war can conquer"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Strength
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"Destiny exists not in the stars but in the choices we refuse to make"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The heart has its own memory, separate from the mind"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"Each generation believes it will escape the fate of the previous one"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Philosophy
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"The town forgotten by the winds carried the weight of infinite time"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) History
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"We are not defined by our past, but by our persistence in the present"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Motivation
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"The greatest magic is the power to love without losing yourself"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Dreams
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"He had lived long enough to know that regret outlives hope"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Hope
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"The only thing that endures is change itself"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Change
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"What belongs to the heart belongs to everyone"
Pilar Ternera Kindness
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"The curse of the Buendías was not in their blood but in their hearts"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Family
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"Time erases all boundaries between the living and the dead"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Time
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"The most beautiful discovery of a man is a woman"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Relationships
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"He spent his life searching for what he already possessed"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Wisdom
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"Knowledge without love is like a body without a soul"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Knowledge
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"The future was already written, but we spend our lives denying it"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"What does it matter if we are forgotten once we are dead"
Colonel Aureliano Buendía Death
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"The strength of a man is measured by his capacity to dream"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Strength
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"There is no greater sorrow than to bear a great love in solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"The dead are still living in their graves"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Death
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"Every person has their own reality in their own heart"
Remedios the Beauty Truth