When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.