In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

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

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.