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

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Cease, cows, life is short.

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.

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

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.