Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
You can't come in, colonel, " she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.
Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.
Things have a life of their own, " the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.
Men demand much more than you think, " she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.