One Hundred Years of Solitude

"The war was not an adventure but a profession"

"A new era was beginning for the family"

"It was not that he had ceased to understand her, but rather that he no longer loved her"

"The mirrors would be covered and one could not look at the dead"

"She had learned to sew with the same virtuosity that her mother had taught her"

"He spent months of deliberation to conceive the law that would bind the family to the house forever"

"It was a family that could never have endured in the modern world"

"The sky was gloomy, the morning was humid and serene"

"Humanity has a tendency to believe that the future is infinite and the past is finite"

"There was something about her that made one think of those women"

"He had fought thirty-two wars and had lost them all"

"The moth-eaten manuscripts began to turn to dust"

"She was not beautiful for her beauty, but for the grace with which she accepted her own ugliness"

"It had never occurred to him that memory, too, could wither away"

"He had become wise without knowing it"

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

"She had discovered that one can be in love with several people at the same time without betraying any of them"

"He had learned from reading that man also had the faculty of imagining atrocities in the future"

"We're always coming back to the same thing, aren't we?"

"The only regret he had was not having a thousand lives so he could die a thousand deaths for her"

"Everything is known about the future"

"It was beautiful to see her move through the house with her infallible grace"

"One afternoon, realizing that he was old, Aureliano Segundo began to weep"

"What does it matter how much time we have left to live, if we spend it loving each other?"

"She was still so young that she was not afraid of the future"

"The world is certainly round, but nobody knows what shape it really is"

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

"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"

"She was like a cathedral of loneliness, inviolable and immense."

"Time advances in its own fashion, indifferent to the desires of men."