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“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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