Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

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

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

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

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.