One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Remedios the Beauty had finally managed to achieve perfection through her absolute lack of understanding."

"She was the most beautiful woman ever born in Macondo."

"The truth is that Macondo had not always been fated for this end."

"In his own way, Aureliano Segundo was quite lucid in matters of the heart."

"Whenever he found himself in difficult situations, he would remember the taste of the soap of his childhood."

"She understood that all the confusion of her life had finally cleared up."

"Love had never been a more concrete and more treacherous thing than it was then."

"The past was a material thing made of blocks that could be touched and examined in space."

"Time advances in the same way for a fast-moving ant as for a sedentary being."

"The most bitter smile in the world was the smile of the dead."

"One does not allow oneself to be betrayed by one's own heart."

"Beauty is something so rare in this world that I have devoted myself to it with passion."

"The only regret he had was not having had a daughter."

"Aureliano Buendía was to remember that his father showed him the marvels of the world in order that he would not be surprised by its lack of marvels."

"He shrugged as if to say that the difference between disaster and revelation, between the miraculous and the commonplace, was only a matter of geography."

"She had discovered that she was not able to love without promises."

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

"Years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

"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."

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

"Everything ends, but nothing truly disappears."

"Relationships are the chains that bind us to existence."

"Inspiration comes to those who seek it."

"Perseverance is the victory of the determined."

"Work without meaning is merely torture."

"Leadership is the burden of the lonely."

"Nature always has the final word."

"Peace can only be found within oneself."

"Music is the language of angels."

"Health is a luxury few can afford."