Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Music is important for one's health.

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.