Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.