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“A history of the family was a machine with unavoidable repetitions, a turning wheel that would have gone on spilling into eternity were it not for the progressive and irremediable wearing of the axle.”

“It was as if things, especially those for everyday use, had developed a faculty for changing location on their own.”

“The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”

Aureliano found Jose dead and floating on the perfumed mirror of the pool, he then realized how much he loved him.

“She shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”

“Little by little she was shrinking, turning into a fetus, becoming mummified in life to the point that in her last month she was a cherry raisin lost inside of her nightgown, and the arm that she always kept raised looked like the paw of marimonda monkey.”

“The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms.”

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, because, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it had been raining.”

“All inhabitants of Macondo were waiting for it to clear in order to die.”

“Jose Arcadio Segundo reached the conclusion that Colonel Aurelian Burundi’s was nothing but a faker or an imbecile. He could not understand why he needs so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.”

Meme and the butterflies that followed her, she was the only one who allowed herself to love.

“What pained her most and enraged her most and made her most bitter was the fragrant and warmly guava grove of love that was dragging her toward death.”

Oh Aramanta, you were a tender soul

“Many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many trouble of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortune of imaginary beings.”

“We fought all those wars and all of it just so that we didn’t have to paint our houses blue.”

“He ordered them to leave him in peace, insisting that he was not a hero of the nation as they said but an artisan without memories whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

“Throughout the long history of the family the insistent repetition of names had made her draw some conclusions that seemed to be certain.”

Roosters have already brought too much bitterness to this house

Exasperating(infuriating) nature

Only the almond trees are left

“I know all of this by heart,” Ursula would shout. “It’s as if time had turned around and we were back at the beginning.”

“His image was fading away into a universe of unreality.”

“How strange men are,” she said, “they spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayer books as gifts.”

“Only her knew at the time that his confused heart was condemned to uncertainty forever.”

“Your rotting alive.”

“Intoxication of power began to break apart under waves of discomfort.”