There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.