He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

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.