Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.