One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

"Things have a life of their own. The only thing to do is wake up to that fact."

"She had discovered that it was impossible to love two men at the same time, but also impossible to love only one."

"The only thing that mattered was that he was alive, that he could still dream."

"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"The world is surely round and people are wearing out their shoes walking around it."

"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."

"He learned that everything was predetermined and that our actions were determined by an invisible will"

"The persistence of his struggle was more a matter of habit than hope"

"They were defeated by their own destructive drives"

"She accepted him with the satisfaction of correcting the past"

"It was as if everything would remain in eternal suspension"

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names"

"He discovered that he was not capable of love"

"She had never felt anything like the anxiety to know who she really was"

"They had allowed themselves to be seduced by prosperity and then abused by solitude"

"Wars were not, as the mothers of the world were told, a consequence of an impulse toward the destruction of things"

"Time had become visible"

"In any case, she had never experienced the need to lie"

"He would not yield to this solitude"

"All of this is so far from my other existence that it seems like a dream I have dreamed while sleeping"

"One must be very careful about the way one chooses to live one's life"

"They really had been through death, but they had returned because they could not bear the solitude"

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

"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"

"There is always something about the inevitable that moves us."

"The past was a fixed and immovable thing."

"They had come to the town without knowing who they were, without knowing even whether it was them or their doubles who had come to this place."