One Hundred Years of Solitude

Book · 8 characters · 837 quotes · 1967

Quotes from One Hundred Years of Solitude

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"Money corrupts everything it touches."
Aureliano Buendía Money
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"Creativity is the breath of the soul."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Creativity
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"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Gratitude
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"The truth is often stranger than fiction."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Truth
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"Adventure is what happens when you stop being afraid."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Adventure
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"To love is to surrender all control."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"The mind creates its own prisons."
José Arcadio Buendía Freedom
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"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) History
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"Kindness is the rarest gift in a world of cruelty."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Kindness
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"Patience is the art of waiting without losing hope."
Remedios the Beauty Patience
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"The greatest strength is knowing when to surrender."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Strength
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Aureliano Buendía Justice
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"A man is not old until his regrets outnumber his dreams."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Motivation
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"Every ending is also a beginning."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Hope
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"Fear is the greatest tyrant of all."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía Fear
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"The future is written in the past."
Melquiades Time
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"Change is the only constant in Macondo."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Change
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"Love is the most powerful magic of all."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Love
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"The dead do not disappear; they merely change form."
Melquiades Death
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"Loneliness was not something she had discovered recently."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Solitude
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"Science and religion are two sides of the same coin."
José Arcadio Buendía Science
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"In the end, all families are the same family."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Family
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) History
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"Beauty is dangerous when it is real."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Beauty
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"Madness is not hereditary; it is learned."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Wisdom
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"One can resist the invasion of armies, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
Aureliano Buendía Philosophy
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"The more you read, the less you understand the world."
José Arcadio Buendía Knowledge
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"Memory is the space where time dwells."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Time
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"Time moves in cycles. What has been will be again."
Melquiades Time
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"They had learned to tolerate each other's presence without being in love."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator) Relationships