A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.